Woman's bid to jump from LD hotel foiled
Published on: Thursday, June 23, 2016
Lahad Datu: A woman's attempt to take her own life from the sixth floor of a hotel here was foiled by quick-thinking firefighters on Tuesday. District Fire and Rescue Station Chief Mohd Apandi Mahmood said a 7.17pm distress call prompted a team to rush to the scene. "The team arrived six minutes later and tried to talk the 21-year-old, who was sitting at the window ledge, out of it.
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"They managed to calm the woman before pulling her to safety," he said, adding that the operation ended at about 7.47pm. In November last year, a 43-year-old unemployed Filipino with no documents was also rescued by firefighters after he tried to jump from the fourth floor ledge of a hotel in Kota Kinabalu. That same month, a 26-year-old local Suluk suffered burns to his body after he set himself on fire in his rented room on the fourth floor of the Api-Api Apartment in the State Capital.
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At least seven known unnatural deaths were reported in the State this year, including the latest one involving a suspected Myanmar woman who succumbed to her injuries after falling from the eighth floor of a condominium along Jalan Sulaman on April 29. On April 21, a Caucasian also succumbed to his injuries after falling from the 12th floor of a condominium in Tanjung Aru, while a man believed to be in his 50s, died after he fell from the sixth floor of a shopping mall in the city on March 21.
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