30.09.2025 13:45
In the Tarsus district of Mersin, a 27-year-old woman named Pelin Kıyga lost her life when the elevator cabin on the 7th floor of an apartment building fell to the ground after its cable broke.
The municipal employee Pelin Kıyga, who lives in an apartment in the Altaylılar neighborhood, had the cable of the elevator she took from the 7th floor after leaving her home for work break. The cabin she was in crashed to the ground.
DIED IN THE HOSPITAL
Upon the notification of the residents in the building, health and fire teams were dispatched to the address. Pelin Kıyga, who was severely injured and extracted from the cabin, was taken to the hospital by ambulance. Despite the intervention of doctors, Kıyga could not be saved. The lifeless body of Pelin Kıyga, who was married and a mother of one child, was taken to the morgue for autopsy.