Indonesian maid leaps to death after phone call with husband

Dec 27, 2009, 5:28 GMT

Taipei - An Indonesian maid leapt to her death from the 12th floor of a Taipei apartment building after quarreling with her husband on the phone, a newspaper reported on Sunday.

Wasiah, 30, jumped from the apartment of her Taiwanese employer Saturday around noon after receiving a phone call from her husband in Indonesia, the United Daily News said.

'She quarreled with her husband on the phone. When she hung up, she dashed to the balcony and I heard the sound of vomiting. I saw that she was about to leap off and I rushed to the balcony to stop her, but it was too late,' the employer's younger sister, who was using a computer in the sitting room, was quoted as saying.

She said she did not know what the quarrel was about, because Wasiah was talking in Indonesian, 'but she was shouting on the phone,' the newspaper reported.

Wasiah landed on a parked car, smashed the back window of the car, and tumbled to the ground. She was rushed to the June Ai Hospital but died from injuries.

The maid had arrived in Taiwan in April to work for the local family through arrangement by a job placement company.

Police ruled out foul play, and notified the Indonesian family.