Thai teenager climbs through jammed doors after getting stuck in a lift

  • 4 years ago
Rescue workers prised open a lift to help a 15-year-old girl who was stuck for more than an hour.

Boonyisa Kueprakon, 15, took the lift down at the apartment block planning to go to the nearby supermarket in Chonburi, Thailand on Thursady (November 28) night.

The girl entered the lift on the fifth floor but it was stuck on the third floor. She tried to compose herself and call her sister for help.

The rescue team arrived and tried to open the doors but it was too heavy for them. They had to use the cutter spreader to open it.

The teenager managed to finally escape from the lift by crawling out through a gap in the doors made by the rescue team.

Boonyisa said that the lift shook for a couple times before it stop but she able to control herself not to be panic.

She said: "After I took the lift from the fifth floor, it started to shake a couple time and suddenly stopped at the third floor, after it stopped I hurried to call my sister."

Boonyisa's relieved sister Oranee Keuprakon, 25, said she contacted the rescue team and she was worried that her sister could suffocate in there.

She said: "I was shocked when my sister called and told me that she was stuck in a lift. I quickly call the rescuers as i was worried that the air would run out."

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