Bruneian trapped in QUT lift

Kelvin Grove, 19 May - A Bruneian student who has just finished doing her research in a library was trapped in level 2 at QUT's Kelvin Grove campus lift about an hour before being rescued by a technician.

However, the ordeal which struck at around 6pm did't take her totally by suprise because she has a similar incident less than two months ago at the Fortitude Valley ,where she was rescued by a technician less than 5 minutes after the door of the lift she was in failed to open up and she had to call for help through the lift's emergency button.

In the latest incident, she did not experience it herself similar to the previous one. One student was with her during this harrowing ordeal. "We are trapped at the second floor of the lift and we came out about 1 hour later at the 4th floor,"Hjh Siti, a Master's degree student in Public Policy at QUT's Kelvin Grove recalling her bad experience trapped in the lift for the second time. Both of them were rescued at 7pm.

Although both were safe but the time taken for the technician to arrive worried her colleagues who came to the knowledge of her entrapment a little late. As the news broke out, a team of Bruneian colleagues rushed to the scene after learning the victims were' alive and kicking'. A telephone conversation earlier between her and her colleagues brought a cheerful news and they stood guard at the 2nd level waiting anxiously for their 'release'.

By the time they got there, the technician has done his job marvelously. However, the 'ordeal' did not stop there. The victims went 'missing' as the technician was at lost after the victims have come out unnoticed from the 4th floor instead fo the 'expected' 2nd floor. By the time the rescue team reached the 4th level, the victims were no way to be found as they made their escape route separately.

"The ordeal could have been shorter had the technician arrives much earlier but the security personnel and several colleagues of mine were there to calm our nerves," added a beaming Hjh Siti after emerging from the ordeal virtually unscathed.

Security personnel jot down details of Hjh Siti