MANGALURU: An eight-year-old boy died after he was trapped between the floors in a manual lift at an apartment in Chilimbi here on Wednesday. Ironically, his parents work as the security guards of the same apartment. The four-storeyed building, ‘Bharathi Heights’, is located on fourth cross in Chilimbi.Police have identified the deceased as Manjunath, son of Neelappa and Parvathi, both originally hailing from Hungundha taluk in Bagalkot . They had migrated to Mangaluru to earn a living.According to residents of the building, the boy was playing in the lift while his sister was standing outside. They said at some point, the boy failed to close the door of the lift and meanwhile a resident from another floor called the lift. As a result, the boy was taken along with the lift, its door open. He was trapped between the two floors and he sustained critical injuries.Though he was rushed to a private hospital, the doctors declared him brought dead.A resident said the Parvathi had recently enrolled her son into Class 1.It may be recalled that a seven-year-old boy named Mohammed Sinan lost his life after getting stuck in a lift at an apartment on Vas Lane here.

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