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March 17, 2007

Maid cleaning window survives three-storey fall

Indonesian is the third maid to fall from a flat in the past few months

By Amelia Tan & Krist Boo

AN INDONESIAN maid had a lucky escape early yesterday morning when she survived a three-storey plunge from her employer's flat.

Ms Nia Wulandari had climbed onto the ledge of a third-storey Choa Chu Kang flat at about 6am yesterday to clean windows when she slipped and fell.

The police received a call at 6.15am and a Singapore Civil Defence Force ambulance took her to National University Hospital (NUH) shortly after, where last night she was in a stable condition.

Ms Nia is the third maid to fall from a flat in the past few months. In October and November last year, two maids fell to their death in the course of work, adding to the grim total of more than 100 workplace maid deaths over the past seven years.

A neighbor, who wanted to be known only as Mr Liu, said he saw Ms Nia falling from the flat, screaming. When he rushed to the ground floor, she was lying motionless and calling out for help.

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