The blockade woman received a fatal head injury in the elevator of a boarding house in the Leningrad region quarter “, located in the Leningrad region. This was reported by REN TV with reference to the regional department of the Investigative Committee.
The tragedy took place on November 17 in an institution providing care for the elderly. The nurse put the woman's wheelchair into the elevator, which was not equipped with a special guard. She sent the lift to another floor unaccompanied.
“When moving, the wheelchair overturned backward, as a result of which the victim received an open head injury and died,” the investigators said. The head of the boarding house and the nurse are currently detained. They will be charged shortly. Upon the death of the blockade woman, a case was initiated for the provision of services that did not meet safety requirements.
In the spring of 2021, an elevator in one of the apartment buildings in New York crushed to death a man who was trapped in a mine. A 64-year-old man got entangled in the cables of a lift when he was called to another floor. The American entered the elevator shaft to help the tenant retrieve the fallen telephone. The man was taken to the hospital, but he died there.