A senior citizen was crushed to death in a lift accident in a seven-storey building in Chandanwadi area of Thane city on Friday, a civic official said.

The man, identified as Narayan Dhondu Belose, in his 60s, fell into the duct of a lift and was crushed when it started moving, and the corpse was pulled out by police and civic personnel, Thane Municipal Corporation regional disaster management cell chief Avinash Sawant told PTI.