Ghanaian Bakery Worker Suffocated

... In 80cm-High Mini Elevator In Hamburg

According to the German fire brigade in Hamburg, it was just like a joke, when a Ghanaian Bakery worker (dishwasher) in Hamburg died yesterday through suffocation when he took a shortcut by using a very short and small lift, measuring only 80cm high, which all of a sudden came to a halt during the transportation. The mini/tiny elevator is however meant (only) for the transportation of cooking utensils like dishes and big bowls and other loads.

The 50 year old Ghanaian who got stuck in the short and small tiny lift, took a shortcut by using the said elevator only to be lifted from the basement of the Bakery house to the kitchen on the ground floor.

At 16:36 yesterday his colleagues called the fire brigade but very unfortunately before the fire service arrived at the scene every help was too late for the Ghanaian. The attempt by the Hamburger fire service to free the man took over half an hour only for them to report the lifeless body of the Ghanaian Bakery worker

. When the firefighters pick the man from the elevator, he was longer conscious and stopped breathing. Revival attempts remained unsuccessful.

The Managing Director of the Company, Thorsten Knoop said, "I am deeply shocked and all of my colleagues too are also shocked. Of course, the small elevator is not suitable for transporting people. It is only 80 centimetres high."

Francis Tawiah (Duisburg - Germany)