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CIO HQ elevator crashes, 1 dead, 3 injured

by Staff reporter
19 Mar 2015 at 07:27hrs | Views

One person died and three others were reportedly injured yesterday after an elevator at the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) headquarters at Chaminuka Building in Harare broke loose and plunged from the ninth to the fourth floor.

Chaminuka Building is located between Kaguvi and Mukwati buildings at the main government offices along Fourth Street between Livingstone Avenue and Selous Avenue.

The number of casualties could not be ascertained at the time of going to print, but sources said the elevator was under routine maintenance when the accident occurred in the afternoon.

"Sources said they just heard a loud bang, but didn't know that it was an elevator that had plunged," a close to the building said.

For now, I'm not quite sure about the number of people injured.

It was reported that technicians were working on the elevator for decommissioning and so they were on top of it.

Source - Newsday