Tuesday September 11, 2012
Woman threatens suicide from the sixth-floor hotel window
By RUBEN SARIO
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SANDAKAN: A 33-year-old woman from Selangor had the town on edge as she threatened to jump from a sixth-floor hotel window here.
For three hours from 8am, she stood on a narrow ledge and made several phone calls while hotel staff rushed piles of mattresses at the bottom of the building to cushion her fall if she jumped.
Ironically, it was World Suicide Prevention Day.
High risk: Firemen carrying the woman to safety after she threatened to jump from the sixth floor of a hotel in Sandakan.
Firemen and policemen also engaged her in some small talk and tried to dissuade the woman, clad in a red blouse and a pair of white shorts, from carrying out her threat yesterday. A large crowd gathered outside the hotel after word spread about the woman on the ledge.
The episode ended with a dramatic rescue as the woman was listening and talking to some policemen, firemen crept from the windows of two adjoining rooms and quickly grabbed her. She was later brought down from the building and taken to the Sandakan police station.
It is learnt that she and another woman had checked into the hotel in Bandar Labuk Jaya a few minutes before passers-by saw her standing on the narrow ledge. Her roommate called the police and the Fire and Rescue Service Department, who immediately rushed to the scene.
She ignored them and made some phone calls, believed to be to a man in Tawau. Police believe the woman, from Klang, was distraught over a relationship with a boyfriend. In KUALA LUMPUR, a Telekom Malaysia Bhd retiree was found dead at the bottom of a an apartment block in Kampung Abdullah Hukum in Bangsar.
Abdul Khalid Salleh, 60, was believed to have fallen from his 12th floor unit. One of his children found the grille window opened and saw Abdul Khalid's body at the bottom of the building at around 8am yesterday. The victim's wife, Faridah Omar, 58, told Bernama they had had breakfast together and the incident happened minutes after she went to the washroom.
Faridah said her husband was suffering from a bout of fever and had been given some medication by a doctor. Brickfields district police chief ACP Wan Abd Bari Wan Abd Khalid said Abdul Khalid's body was sent to the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre for a post-mortem. The case has been classified as sudden death.
Those who need to talk to someone should call Befrienders at 03-7956 8145 (Petaling Jaya) and 088-255788 (Kota Kinabalu).
Woman threatens suicide from the sixth-floor hotel window
By RUBEN SARIO
[email protected]
SANDAKAN: A 33-year-old woman from Selangor had the town on edge as she threatened to jump from a sixth-floor hotel window here.
For three hours from 8am, she stood on a narrow ledge and made several phone calls while hotel staff rushed piles of mattresses at the bottom of the building to cushion her fall if she jumped.
Ironically, it was World Suicide Prevention Day.
High risk: Firemen carrying the woman to safety after she threatened to jump from the sixth floor of a hotel in Sandakan.
Firemen and policemen also engaged her in some small talk and tried to dissuade the woman, clad in a red blouse and a pair of white shorts, from carrying out her threat yesterday. A large crowd gathered outside the hotel after word spread about the woman on the ledge.
The episode ended with a dramatic rescue as the woman was listening and talking to some policemen, firemen crept from the windows of two adjoining rooms and quickly grabbed her. She was later brought down from the building and taken to the Sandakan police station.
It is learnt that she and another woman had checked into the hotel in Bandar Labuk Jaya a few minutes before passers-by saw her standing on the narrow ledge. Her roommate called the police and the Fire and Rescue Service Department, who immediately rushed to the scene.
She ignored them and made some phone calls, believed to be to a man in Tawau. Police believe the woman, from Klang, was distraught over a relationship with a boyfriend. In KUALA LUMPUR, a Telekom Malaysia Bhd retiree was found dead at the bottom of a an apartment block in Kampung Abdullah Hukum in Bangsar.
Abdul Khalid Salleh, 60, was believed to have fallen from his 12th floor unit. One of his children found the grille window opened and saw Abdul Khalid's body at the bottom of the building at around 8am yesterday. The victim's wife, Faridah Omar, 58, told Bernama they had had breakfast together and the incident happened minutes after she went to the washroom.
Faridah said her husband was suffering from a bout of fever and had been given some medication by a doctor. Brickfields district police chief ACP Wan Abd Bari Wan Abd Khalid said Abdul Khalid's body was sent to the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre for a post-mortem. The case has been classified as sudden death.
Those who need to talk to someone should call Befrienders at 03-7956 8145 (Petaling Jaya) and 088-255788 (Kota Kinabalu).
