Woman badly injured after falling from 7th floor apartment
IPOH : A woman was seriously injured after falling from the seventh-floor rear balcony of an apartment unit at the Kinta Riverfront Service Suite in Kampung Jawa here this afternoon.
Perak fire and rescue department operations division assistant director Sabarodzi Nor Ahmad said an emergency call was received at about 12.20pm, and eight firefighters were dispatched to the scene.
The team found that a 20-year-old woman had fallen from the air conditioner compressor area of the rear balcony on the seventh floor to a ledge on the second floor, Bernama quoted him as saying in a statement.
He said she suffered a fractured right thigh and multiple lacerations.
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