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28 March 2024

Balcony escape attempt kills housemaid in UAQ

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A 28-year-old Asian housemaid was killed while trying to escape from her employer’s apartment on the ninth floor in Umm Al Quwain on Wednesday by tying pieces of clothes to the balcony in a bid to climb down to the eighth level.

As she began her descent, the unnamed maid slipped off and plunged down to hit a car parked near Al Rihab building in the Northern Emirate.

Police and medical teams rushed to the area but found the maid dead after she was killed instantly on impact.

“She slipped off the clothes she had tied and fell down on a parked car…we found her dead when we arrived,” Major Saif Salim of UAQ police said.

He said investigation was under way to know the maid’s reasons for trying to escape from her employers, who he did not identify.