Woman staring at her phone has her leg crushed after getting stuck between lift's closing doors

Appalling video shows a woman in east China being crushed by a moving lift. Photo / iQiyi

A Chinese woman's leg was crushed and allegedly severed by a faulty lift after she became trapped between the closing doors.

CCTV footage shows a short-haired woman looking at her phone while walking into the lift. She then tripped over and fell to the floor.

Her leg was stuck between the doors as the lift suddenly went up.

According to IQiyi, the woman did not notice the lift had started to move before she walked in.

A woman behind her escaped harm as she did not walk in at the same time.

The lift went up for about three floors before it stopped and the woman can be seen lying on the floor and waiting for help.

She struggled to get her leg out and it appeared that the lift had crushed her right lower leg.

The video suggested that her leg was cut off completely below her knee.

It's confirmed that the incident happened on 21 June, 2017, but the footage has only been released recently.

It's said the incident took place in Conch Building in Zhongshan West Road of Shanghai.

No further information has been disclosed. It remains unclear if the woman had survived the accident.