Bengaluru: Four woman students of Symbiosis Law School Hyderabad, in the city for internships, were injured, three of them seriously, when an elevator plunged around 40ft to the ground from the third floor of a hotel in Frazer Town on Sunday night.Police said the students were heading back to their room in Silver Nest Apartment, on the corner of MM Road and Bourdillon Road, after dinner at 9.30pm when the lift cable snapped just they were trying to exit the elevator car.Three of the students were trapped in the elevator car as it hurtled down, a police officer said. “The fourth student, who was getting out of the lift, fell through the open door and landed on its roof,” he said.Apartment staff rushed the students a hospital nearby for emergency care before doctors referred them to Hosmat Hospital.Doctors at the hospital said Tanushree Bose, 24, was in critical condition in the intensive care unit.They said Akshara M, 20, who had displaced fractures of bones in the right leg and dislocated an ankle joint, underwent multiple emergency surgeries already, while Falaq Patel, 20, suffered an ankle fracture and also underwent a surgery. Doctors said they treated Ishika, 20, who escaped with minor soft tissue injuries, in the hospital’s outpatient ward.The students arrived in Bengaluru on Saturday night and were to report for their internships at Udayshankar Associates on Monday.“The elevator door opened on the third floor and we began to exit when it went crashing down with three of us inside,” Akshara told TOI. “Tanushree, who stepped out first, lost her footing and tumbled backward, landing on the roof of the elevator car.”Hosmat Hospital medical director Dr Ajith Benedict Ryan said Tanushree sustained the worst injuries. “She will on Tuesday undergo surgeries for fractures to the pelvis, sacroiliac joint [near the base of the spine] and sacrum [tail bone],” he said. “Akshara has already had several emergency surgeries.”Police have lodged a case against the owner of the establishment.Silver Nest Apartment manager N Zafar said the elevators in the building had been “serviced” on November 2. “We even had the lift in question repaired completely last month after a few people complained of sudden jerks while it was moving,” he said.

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