Twenty people, who were trapped in a Gurugram shopping mall lift for around an hour, were rescued safely. The mall was. located at
DlF South Point Mall in Sector-53A, the police team and lift maintenance team managed to rescue twenty people successfully.
On Sunday night around 12.05 am the police control room received an information that some people were trapped in the mall lift.
Soon after the information, Station House Officer (SHO) of Sector-53 police station Inspector Rahul Kumar reached the spot with his team and rescued all the people.
"The lift was stuck in the early hours of Sunday at a point that it made access to the trapped people very difficult," Rahul said.
"But the police team managed to get to the people and rescued them. People were rescued after carefully breaking the glass of the lift.
A few women in the lift were very nervous and were either unconsciousness or in the state of semi-consciousness. All the victims were safe," he added.
A spokesperson for the mall declined to comment on the incident when contacted.
The fire brigade was also informed but the people were rescued before the firemen reached the spot.