By Cheryl Ong
A MAID survived a nine-storey fall from her employer's flat in
Bukit Panjang on Friday afternoon, a day after another maid died
when she fell from a sixth-floor window while cleaning it.
Police confirmed the Friday incident, saying they responded to a
call at 1.35pm that day about a woman who had fallen nine storeys
at Block 534, Jelapang Road.
She was found lying at the foot of the block, and was taken to
the National University Hospital with fractures to her legs and
pelvic bone, said a police spokesman.
When The Sunday Times visited the employer's flat yesterday, the
family declined to be interviewed, but said that the maid was not
alone in the flat at that time.
Shin Min Daily News reported that the maid was a 23-year-old
Indonesian who was hired just over a month ago to work for the
family.
An eyewitness told the evening daily that the maid was found on
the ground with bamboo poles and clothes beside her, and that she
could have fallen out of the window while trying to retrieve
laundry when it started to rain in the afternoon.