Official seeks to free trapped dozen by partly prising open lift door to yell for help

Buzzing with activity: Buses and cars converging on the newly opened car park at the foot of Penang Hill.

TWELVE media personnel and officials went through anxious moments when they were trapped for three minutes inside the lift of the new Penang Hill multi-storey car park.

The lift from the ground floor stopped between the ground floor and first floor with a thud.