This is the horrifying moment a mother was killed after a lift she stepped into plunged seven storeys down. In heartbreaking footage, the woman's husband can be seen in a desperate attempt to save her by trying to prise the doors of the lift open from outside. The tragedy unfolded inside an 11-storey block in the Altaylilar district of Tarsus, in Turkey’s Mersin province, on September 30. Pelin Yasot Kiyga had stepped into the lift after leaving her seventh-floor flat on her way to work. The clip starts after the lift malfunctions, with her husband, 34-year-old Gokhan Kiyga trying to find a way to get the doors to unlock.