The bizarre and tragic incident triggered a heated debate online about whether it was by accident or premeditated.

Video shows a man and his father-in-law waiting for the lift in a residential building in Cengong county, southwest China.

The son-in-law decided to open the elevator door and look inside the shaft to check the problem.

Suddenly the father walks into the shaft, thinking the lift had finally arrived. But instead, he fell to his death.

"The son-in-law seems very professional and knew where the elevator lock was. I never knew its place", said a netizen online.

The son-in-law, surnamed Zhou, claims to be the community's electrician. "I forgot to tell my father-in-law not to walk in and I failed to stop him" Zhou explained.

Netizens could see the dark, empty shaft but they all wondered why the father-in-law couldn’t.

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