Police are investigating after a tourist was crushed to death by a faulty lift at a Thai hotel.
Local media were told that the 54-year-old Swiss man got his head stuck between the lift and the wall of the lift shaft as the lift moved between floors at the five-storey Baan Paradise Hotel in Patong on the island of Phuket.
A hotel receptionist told police she heard a loud thud from the lift and someone calling for help in the early hours of this morning, The Phuket News reported.
Hotel staff found they were unable to open the door as the lift was stuck on the third floor.
A lift mechanic was called in but the tourist was found dead by the time the doors were finally prised open.
Police said the space was so tight that the man had suffocated.
Investigators believe either the doors opened and he fell into the gap when the lift became stuck between floors, or the lift failed to arrive as he waited at his floor and he stepped through the doors and fell into the shaft.
