Maid’s Attempt to Commit Suicide Foiled
TENSE MOMENTS: The Asian maid perched on an air conditioning unit on the sixth floor of a building in Riyadh.
RIYADH: An Asian housemaid jumped out of a bedroom window to land on an air conditioning unit. She threatened to throw herself down from there but was caught by the Civil Defense, newspapers reported Sunday.
Residents saw the maid perched on the air conditioning unit on the sixth floor and threatening to jump down. They called the Civil Defense and police, who went to the building in the capital Riyadh and tried to persuade her to go back into her room.
The papers said Civil Defense officers managed to reach the maid and pull her into the apartment, adding that police detained her for interrogation.
In October, a 55-year-old Indian housemaid jumped out of the third-floor window of a house in Riyadh. Her fall was cushioned by the building’s electricity box, but she was badly injured and her right hand had to be amputated during emergency surgery in hospital.