- The unnamed 22-year-old screamed for help for three days after the accident in Sochi
A young woman’s horror has been revealed after she was trapped behind a cellar wall in pitch darkness for three days after falling through a narrow gap between houses.
The unnamed 22-year-old fell between the walls of two buildings in the Russian resort of Sochi, but it was not clear how many floors she fell, local media reported.
She screamed for help in the dark and damp room described by authorities as a “dungeon” before she was rescued.
One of the rescuers can be seen peering over the wall into the darkness before locating the woman.
The team then takes a pneumatic drill and a sledgehammer into the wall before the dust-covered and shoeless woman emerges and uses the last of her energy to clamber with her free feet first.
The team hit the wall with a pneumatic drill and a sledgehammer after locating the unnamed 22-year-old who fell through a narrow gap between the walls of the building in the Russian resort of Sochi.
The dust-covered and shoeless woman later emerged and used the last of her energy to scramble free
The woman makes her way out of the enclosed space, feet first, with the help of rescuers
She told her rescuers that she had been calling for help for three days before someone finally heard her and she was rescued.
Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry said in a statement: ‘A 22-year-old girl spent three days in a dungeon. It all happened in a four-story building in Sochi.
‘A local resident heard a woman’s cry for help behind the wall and descended to the basement of the house. It turned out that the victim fell from the attic and ended up between two walls in the house.
‘To reach her, employees of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry’s Southern Regional Search and Rescue Team had to dismantle part of the masonry. Rescuers handed the girl over to doctors.”