Hyderabad: A four-and-a-half-year-old boy lost his life after getting stuck in the lift of the Mujtaba Apartment at Santosh Nagar Colony, under the limits of the Asif Nagar police station.
The tragic accident occurred on Wednesday night.
Surender, who lived with his parents and sister in the apartment, was the son of Shyam Bahadur, a security guard working in the same building.
Originally from Nepal, the family had moved to the city seven months ago in search of a better livelihood. Shyam Bahadur had been employed as a security guard at a construction site in Gudimalkapur before shifting to Mujtaba Apartment three months ago. The family resided in a small room adjacent to the lift in the six-storey building, which functions as a hostel.
According to eyewitnesses, the incident took place around 10 PM on Wednesday. Surender was playing near the lift when he reportedly got stuck in its grill. Tragically, no one noticed the child’s predicament immediately. It was only after 10 minutes, when his parents began searching for him, that they discovered him unconscious and bleeding profusely in the lift.
Residents of the apartment immediately alerted the police and rushed Surender to a nearby private hospital. However, doctors declared him dead on arrival. The news left Surender’s parents, Shyam Bahadur and his wife, devastated.
