Grieving woman survives fall

BANDUNG, West Java: A young women miraculously survived after throwing herself out of the fifth floor of the Al-Islam Hospital here on Tuesday in an attempted suicide.

The woman, identified as Lina, 24, was still in coma Tuesday evening. Doctors said she suffered several broken bones after the 15 meter fall.

Lina was apparently filled with grief and desperation just minutes before her fall.

A family member said Lina looked very depressed after hearing that her husband Dede Rahmat, 26, had died of lung disease in the hospital.

She suddenly ran to the fifth floor, screaming hysterically and jumped off the building straight to the ground, Antara reported.

"She is alive and her condition is stable, but her body is covered with bruises and broken bones," relatives, who declined to be named, said. (dja)