Six survive as Chicago lift falls 84 floors
People trapped in a falling lift in the US city of Chicago thought they were going to die as they plummeted 84 floors to the ground.
Six people, including a pregnant woman, fell from the 95th to the 11th floor in a skyscraper formerly known as the John Hancock Center early on Friday morning, according to BBC.
They then texted friends who called the emergency services and they were freed after a three-hour ordeal.
Fire officials reportedly said that a snapped "hoist rope" caused the fall.
Firefighters arrived to rescue those trapped by making an opening in a concrete wall.
"We couldn't do an elevator-to-elevator rescue. We had to breach a wall on the 11th floor of the parking garage in order to open up the elevator doors," Chicago Fire Department battalion chief Patrick Maloney told US TV.