Pensioner is killed by falling ICICLE that speared her through the head after snapping off of apartment block in Kazakhstan
- Clip shows woman, 60, walking past a building in the Kazakhstan city of Almaty
- Giant icicle falls from the roof and spears Natalia Shamuzova through her head
- The pensioner’s family are ‘preparing to sue officials for not clearing icicles’
A pensioner has been killed by a giant icicle that speared her through the head after snapping off the roof of an elite apartment block in Kazakhstan.
A security camera caught the appalling moment the ice spear crashed down on top of Natalia Shamuzova in the city of Almaty.
The 60-year-old fell immediately to the ground. A passer-by close to the accident saw what happened but appeared to walk away.
A pensioner has been killed by a giant icicle that speared her through the head after snapping off a which fell from the roof of an elite apartment block. The victim is pictured walking moments before she was killed
A security camera caught the appalling moment the ice spear crashed onto her head (pictured) in the Kazakhstan city of Almaty
The victim, named as Natalia Shamuzova, 60, fell immediately to the ground. A passer-by close to the accident saw what happened but walked away
A man – apparently in shock from the tragic accident – is seen calling the emergency services on his mobile close to the woman’s body.
Witness Rustem Tolemis said: ‘I came up and saw that there was almost nothing left of her head.’
Reports said the pensioner died ‘instantly’ from the large icicle.
Her body was seen on the street as people walk by as if nothing has happened. Later the scene was sealed off.
Reports say the pensioner’s family are preparing to sue the municipal authorities which are responsible for removing potentially lethal icicles hanging from buildings.
Contractors named as Verny Vybor had cleared this building but evidently missed the killer icicle.
A man – apparently in shock from the tragic accident – is seen calling the emergency services on his mobile close to the woman’s body. Pictured is the icicle that killed her
Reports say the pensioner’s family are preparing to sue the municipal authorities which are responsible for removing potentially lethal icicles hanging from buildings
Separate footage shows other uncleared icicles hanging from the building.
Tolemis said: ‘Icicles were crashed by the municipal workers but it looks like they did not clean up all of them.’
Local police registered the incident at Adal Residence as a ‘tragic accident’.
But the local administration in Bostandyksky district claimed the contractor was ‘responsible’.
Officials were ‘in touch with the relatives of the dead woman and is ready to provide all the necessary help with organising the funeral’.
The authorities have promised to support the family.
But KTK TV reported the family intended to sue over the woman’s death.