Girl, 3, falls to her death from 8th storey window trying to find grandma after pair got separated in lift (VIDEO)

A girl, 3, fell to her death from an eighth storey window while she was trying to find her grandmother after they were briefly separated. 

 The three-year-old girl had gone to visit her grandma with her family from the city of Zhuzhou, China. She became separated from her elderly grandma when she entered a lift and doors immediately closed behind her, leaving her alone last Friday, August 28.

When she finally came out of the lift, she went down the corridor, searching for her grandma, and fell to her death when she got to a window.

The girl's family had been visiting for her grandma's birthday, and relatives said they heard a "thud" before they realized what had happened to the child.

CCTV footage showing the incident leading up to her death shows that she had accidentally become trapped on her own in the building’s lift when the doors closed suddenly as her grandmother was trying to walk inside.

Footage shows the elderly woman unable to walk into the lift in time as the doors close.