Woman, 83, stranded in darkness for 8 days

(China Daily)
Updated: 2007-03-07 09:10

An 83-year-old woman survived after being stranded in an equipment room of a hospital's lift, a closed space in the second-level underground floor of a building, for eight days and nights.

Carrying a bottle of sesame oil and four bananas for her relatives, Jia Chunai took the lift in a hospital in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, on February 7. She walked out of the lift into the dark equipment room all alone without a way out. She remained alive with the help of the bananas she had until two workers came down for repair work and discovered her.

"That was really a nightmare for me," she said on Saturday, indicating that she was considering suing the hospital.

(Hebei Youth Daily)



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