2 killed in free-falling elevator in China

Two people were killed and two others injured in a free-falling elevator in a city in northeast China's Liaoning Province, local authorities said on Saturday. The accident at around 2 p.m. on Friday, when a private elevator in a villa of the Mingxiuzhuangyuan residential district in Dalian City fell to the second basement from the third floor suddenly. The villa was under decoration. Two out of four people in the ill-fated elevator were killed, while the injured were sent to a local hospital for treatment, according to the Quality and Technology Supervision Bureau of Dalian (QTSBD). The elevator, produced by a Suzhou-based manufacturer in the eastern province of Jiangsu, is not supervised by the local quality watchdog as it is a private one, a staff with the QTSBD said, adding that such elevators are installed in 50 villas in the district. The cause of the accident is under investigation.