Swiss tourist killed by faulty elevator
Phuket: A 54-year-old Swiss man was crushed to death in a malfunctioning lift at a hotel in Patong beach in the early hours of yesterday, police said.
The tourist was stuck in a lift on the third floor of Baan Paradise Hotel on Soi Paradise off Rat-U-Thit Road, said Pol Maj Theerasak Boonsaeng, a duty officer at Kathu police station.
When the lift’s doors were forced open by police and rescue workers, they found the man had fallen into the gap between the doors and shaft and had been crushed.