Woman threatens suicide from the sixth-floor hotel window

High risk: Firemen carrying the woman to safety after she threatened to jump from the sixth floor of a hotel in Sandakan.

SANDAKAN: A 33-year-old woman from Selangor had the town on edge as she threatened to jump from a sixth-floor hotel window here.

For three hours from 8am, she stood on a narrow ledge and made several phone calls while hotel staff rushed piles of mattresses at the bottom of the building to cushion her fall if she jumped.