7-year-old gets stuck between lift grille and door in Pune housing society, dies

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• A seven-year-old boy tragically died after becoming trapped between a lift's collapsible grille and wooden door in a Pune housing society.
• PUNE: A seven-year-old boy died after getting stuck between the collapsible grille and wooden door of a lift of a nearly 25-year-old housing society building in the Sinhagad Road area on Monday night.Police said the boy, Shivansh Dhoot, had entered the lift alone.
• “Shivansh was playing with his friends and entered the lift around 10pm for his flat on the second floor of the four-story building,” sub-inspector Santosh Bhandwalkar of the Sinhagad Road police said.“As the boy stepped inside and the lift started moving, he got stuck between its wooden door and collapsible grille.
• The lift finally halted on the second floor.
• Residents said no one heard the boy calling or screaming for help,” he said.The residents got to know of the accident when some of them spotted the...