Elderly woman’s hand severed by elevator in Singapore

SCREENGRAB from The Straits Times/Asia News Network

SINGAPORE—An elderly woman found her left hand trapped in between the elevator at a HDB block along Tah Ching Road, near Jurong Lake here on Friday morning.

It is understood that her left hand was severed by the incident.

An Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) spokesman confirmed that it was alerted to the incident at 7.27 a.m. on the ground floor of Block 322. On the arrival of the SCDF officers, rescue tools were used to pry open the lift doors to release the elderly woman, who was stuck inside the lift.

The spokesman added that the woman was taken to the National University Hospital with a serious left hand injury. The hospital was also alerted to be on standby to receive her.

The Straits Times understands the woman’s severed hand was retrieved by paramedics, packaged in ice and taken to the hospital with her.

As of 11.45 a.m., an area of the lift lobby remained cordoned off by the police and the block’s Lift B was still not available for use by residents.