and makes you wonder: if you do not have a maid, how often do you clean the windows of your apartment yourself?
Maid clung onto hands of duo before death plunge
Indonesian hung on for 5 mins, but neighbour and another maid could not pull her in
Published on Feb 28, 2012
By Jalelah Abu Baker
For five long minutes last Thursday, a terrified Indonesian maid clung onto the hands of two strangers as she dangled from an eighth-floor window at a Jurong condominium apartment.
But the 26-year-old, believed to have been cleaning the windows of her employer's home minutes before, slipped from the grasp of those two pairs of hands and fell to her death.
TOO SCARED
'She was... too low already. She didn't say anything. She just looked panicked and scared.'
The maid hanging out of a window at Ivory Heights condo last Thursday. She was believed to have been cleaning the windows of her employer's home before she fell. The 26-year-old had been working for the employer for barely a week. --PHOTO: COURTESY OF KUAH BOO INN
Declining to be named, she told The Straits Times on Monday that the desperate woman's eyes, wide with fear, have been seared into her memory.
OR five long minutes, a terrified Indonesian maid clung onto the hands of two strangers as she dangled from an eighth-floor window at a Jurong condominium apartment.
But the 26-year-old, believed to have been cleaning the windows of her employer’s home minutes before, slipped from the grasp of those two pairs of hands and fell to her death last Thursday.
One of the two people who tried to prevent her fall was a fellow Indonesian maid from a seventh-floor unit at the Ivory Heights condo.
She said she was ironing clothes when she heard screams for help. Running to the balcony for a look, she said she saw an elderly woman from the unit above holding onto the hand of a woman who was hanging out of the window.
The maid, also aged 26, immediately went to the unit above, where she saw a man from a neighbouring apartment helping the elderly woman.
The maid took over from the older woman and, with the man, tried to pull the other maid who was hanging outside back in.
Even with their combined strength, it was too difficult
“She was hanging too low already. She didn’t say anything. She just looked panicked and scared,” she said.
She added that it was not long before her palms started perspiring, and she felt the woman’s hand slip from hers.
The maid said after the woman plunged down, she left the apartment, went back to her employer’s unit and broke down in tears.
Police and paramedics arrived at the scene and took the young woman to the National University Hospital, where she was pronounced dead an hour later. — The Straits Times / Asia News Network
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/2/29/asia/10821788&sec=asia
I don't know about you, but the photo of the poor girl dangling outside the window has been seared into my memory!!!
OR five long minutes, a terrified Indonesian maid clung onto the hands of two strangers as she dangled from an eighth-floor window at a Jurong condominium apartment.
But the 26-year-old, believed to have been cleaning the windows of her employer’s home minutes before, slipped from the grasp of those two pairs of hands and fell to her death last Thursday.
One of the two people who tried to prevent her fall was a fellow Indonesian maid from a seventh-floor unit at the Ivory Heights condo.
She said she was ironing clothes when she heard screams for help. Running to the balcony for a look, she said she saw an elderly woman from the unit above holding onto the hand of a woman who was hanging out of the window.
The maid, also aged 26, immediately went to the unit above, where she saw a man from a neighbouring apartment helping the elderly woman.
The maid took over from the older woman and, with the man, tried to pull the other maid who was hanging outside back in.
Even with their combined strength, it was too difficult
“She was hanging too low already. She didn’t say anything. She just looked panicked and scared,” she said.
She added that it was not long before her palms started perspiring, and she felt the woman’s hand slip from hers.
The maid said after the woman plunged down, she left the apartment, went back to her employer’s unit and broke down in tears.
Police and paramedics arrived at the scene and took the young woman to the National University Hospital, where she was pronounced dead an hour later. — The Straits Times / Asia News Network
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/2/29/asia/10821788&sec=asia
I don't know about you, but the photo of the poor girl dangling outside the window has been seared into my memory!!!
1 comment:
Soooo sad, she's my age =(
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