Shaft

A man was killed in the central Athens district of Pangrati on Monday after being crushed by an elevator, the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA-MPA) reported.

According to the report, two firefighters retrieved the man's body from the bottom of the elevator shaft of an apartment building on Laertou Street. His death was confirmed at a local hospital.

A famous oil wrestler has died after falling into an elevator shaft at a construction site in Istanbul. 

Police say a woman has died after falling from the eighth floor of her Thessaloniki apartment.

Local reports said the woman was killed after falling down an air shaft.

Her identity was not made public.

No other details were available.

One worker died on Feb. 23 after falling through an elevator shaft at a construction site in Istanbul, located next to the construction site of Torunlar Center, where 10 workers were killed in a workplace accident last September.