MADINAH — An Asian housemaid was killed when she fell off the fifth floor of a building in Al-Bahr neighborhood here on Sunday. Police spokesman Col. Fahad Al-Ghannam said preliminary inquiry indicated that the maid was trying to escape from her sponsor. She tied several bed sheets together and tried to escape through a window in the apartment. While climbing down, one the sheets was torn, and she fell down on the pavement, incurring multiple injuries and fractures which led to her death.
