Maid Plunges to Death
<i> Reuters</i>
HONG KONG —
A maid who locked herself out of a Hong Kong high-rise plunged 37 stories to her death trying to lower herself into the apartment from the building’s roof, police said.
A red nylon clothesline she was using snapped soon after Downnoa Deelee climbed over the apartment roof’s edge and started to lower herself. She was described as a 30-year-old Thai with two children.
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