This is the moment security cameras capture a husband desperately trying to save his wife from a stuck lift shortly before it crashed to the ground and killed her.

The incident happened in an 11-storey apartment building in the Altaylilar neighbourhood of Tarsus, a city in Turkey's Mersin province on 30th September.

Young Pelin Yasot Kiyga had boarded the lift as she left her seventh-floor apartment to go to work.

But suddenly, the lift got stuck and then a short while later it crashed to the ground together with the concrete counter weights.

Her husband Gokhan Kiyga, 34, was injured in his foot while trying to prise open the doors to rescue her.
Video: NewsX