WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: A doctor was decapitated by a lift in a gruesome hospital accident where his colleague was forced to watch on in horror as she was trapped inside with his remains Hitoshi Nikaidoh was decapitated in a horror accident

It is the stuff of nightmares. Surgeon Hitoshi Nikaidoh, 35, stepped into a second-floor elevator at St Joseph Hospital, Houston, Texas, in 2003, when the doors closed suddenly.

It pinned his shoulders, and tragically severed his head when the lift moved upwards . So what really happened?

A hospital employee unfortunately witnessed the whole thing and spent 20 minutes trapped inside the lift, and would have had to wait in full view of the bloody scene.

The woman, India Chumney Hancock, was taken to hospital to be treated with shock , b

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