Ms Chew, 37, tried to jump from a multistorey carpark in Taiwan’s Taoyuan city on Dec 28, 2017.
The Straits Times
Date: 29 December 2017
By: Lydia Lam
A Singaporean woman who flew to Taiwan to meet her online lover tried to commit suicide
Ms Chew, 37, tried to jump from a multistorey carpark in Taiwan’s Taoyuan city on Dec 28, 2017.PHOTO: ZHONGLI PRECINCT, TAOYUAN POLICE DEPARTMENT
by jumping from a multistorey carpark when he failed to turn up, according to Taiwanese media reports.
The Straits Times understands that the 37-year-old woman is surnamed Chew and that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) is aware of the case.
The incident occurred at around 12.30pm on Thursday (Dec 28) in Taiwan’s Taoyuan city, at a multistorey carpark in Zhongli District’s Yanping Road, Shin Min Daily News reported on Friday.
She was reportedly standing on the parapet at the roof of the five-storey-high carpark.
Taiwan’s Apple Daily news site said the police received a call about the incident and rushed to the scene, along with the civil defence force, which dispatched a fire engine equipped with stairs. [FULL STORY]
