Police rescue woman from tower

JAMBI, Jambi: Local police special forces members rescued a distressed woman after she abandoned a suicide attempt on a television transmission tower here at dawn on Monday.

It took the police an hour to bring the woman, identified as Rebiani from Sragen, Central Java, down the 60-meter tower belonging to private station RCTI. Rebiani was exhausted and dehydrated after apparently sitting on the tower for seven hours.

People in the town were unable to receive RCTI broadcasts while she was on the tower.

A member of the rescue team, Second Lt. Avivi, told Antara the woman screamed in fear when police found her. "She called a name and said 'don't rape me again'," Avivi said.

He said Rebiani agreed to go down after police convinced her they would arrest the man she said had raped her, who she identified as Leman.

Hundreds of residents living near the tower on Jl. Pattimura in Jambi's outskirts watched the rescue operation.

Rebiani was admitted to the hospital and will face police questioning.