A woman died after she was crushed under a lift at an apartment in Puttaparthi town, in the early hours of Wednesday.
Sarada (42), a resident of Hyderabad and devotee of Sathya Sai Baba, came to Puttaparthi to perform seva (service) at Prasanthi Nilayam.
According to the police, as she was about to go for Seva, she stepped into the lift cavity accidentally, believing that the lift had stopped at her floor.
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As she stepped into the cavity, she plunged down to the ebb of the cavity severely injuring herself, even as the lift came down on her in the space of a few seconds, killing her on the spot.
The Puttaparthi police registered a case and investigating is on.
She accidentally stepped into the
cavity of a lift at
an apartment in
the town