Woman fell to her death down an elevator shaft

A power outage caused the elevator to stop between the third and fourth floor. As the Fire and Rescue Team opened the elevator door on the third floor the victim allegedly jumped out and landed wrong, causing her to fall backwards into the open gap, down the elevator shaft.

The power outage was due to Stage 2 Loadshedding that went into affect this morning.

Witbank 911 assisted the Pathology Services to extricate the body from the bottom of the shaft, which took over an hour. Hundreds of people crowded around the yellow police tape to see the commotion.