KENINGAU: Police here have managed to persuade a local women, believed to be a civil servant, from attempting to take her life by jumping off a hotel building here after a 30-minute stand-off.
The incidence, which took place on the eighth floor of the hotel building, occurred at about 8.30 pm on Friday.
According to eyewitnesses account, the woman, in her 30′s, had registered as a guest at the hotel at 12.30 pm on the day of the incident.
The hotel management was only notified of the incident after the parent of the woman concerned made a report at the police station here.
According to the hotel security guard, the woman initially adamantly refused to cooperate, but after some persistent persuasion the woman relented and forgo her intention to take her own life.
The woman was later sent to the Keningau Hospital for observation while the cause leading to her wanting to take her own life is being investigated.