Ghaziabad: Three 8-Year-Old Girls Get Stuck Inside Lift, Video Goes Viral

As a child, there’s no bigger horror than getting stuck in a metal can without an adult to help you out of it. Three eight-year-old girls from Ghaziabad had to live through the nightmarish emergency for over 24 minutes as they got stuck inside their apartment complex’s lift without a clue of how to get out of the dangerous situation.

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CCTV Footage Of Girls Being Stuck In An Elevator Goes Viral

The CCTV footage from the incident has gone viral as people praise the brave reaction of the three little girls, who tried their best to get out of the situation while helping each other throughout. In the minute-long video, the moment when the lift suddenly stops working is captured. The girls are seen initially panicking as they don’t have any way to get out of the lift.??

Even as they panic, one of the girls tries to press any button inside the lift to get a word out for help. She also attempted to force open the lift doors, but the situation worsened because nothing they did at the time worked. Later, the girls were saved and brought back to the safety of their homes.

Check out the viral video below:

The Incident Took Place Due To The Negligence Of Officials In Charge Of Maintenance In The Society

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The incident took place in the Crossings Republik township of Ghaziabad on November 29. The girls were stuck on the 11th floor while they were making their way to the ground floor of Assotech Nest Society. The girls had gotten on the lift on the 20th floor and got stuck halfway to the bottom.

Shivam Gehlot, the?father of one of the children that got stuck, blamed the president of the Assotech Nest AOA, Chitra Chaturvedi, along with Abhay Jha, the AOA secretary. He accused the RWA members in charge of the long-overdue maintenance of the society's lifts of negligence.Gehlot stated that many pleas had been registered to address the increasing incidents in lifts, which frequently malfunction and pose a dangerous risk to residents, but their requests had gone unheard prior to the viral incident.

Here's how people on the internet reacted to the video:

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