Woman found hanged in police hospital

Woman found hanged in police hospital

JAKARTA (JP): A woman was found hanged in a ward of the R.S.
Soekanto Police Hospital in Kramat Jati, East Jakarta, yesterday
morning.

Andi Nuraida, 39, who was under medical treatment since
Wednesday after being attacked by residents while she attempted
to kill her husband, was found at 9 a.m. reportedly hanging from
a cloth tied to the ward's window bars, police said.

According to City Police spokesman Lt. Col. E. Aritonang, the
housewife was believed to have committed suicide.

"She used a shawl to hang herself from the bar," he said.

"Doctors who treated her at the hospital also found that
Nuraida was very depressed. She was emotionally unstable," said
Aritonang.

Aritonang said that the woman was being treated for several
injuries received during Wednesday's attack by an angry mob who
found her attempting to kill her husband Rozali at the latter's
first wife's house in Tanah Tinggi, Johar Baru, Central Jakarta.

Nuraida was Rozali's second wife, he said.

Nuraida reportedly stabbed Rozali, 39, in the abdomen, chest
and face with a knife while the victim was sleeping.

Nuraida told police interrogators that she was very mad and
worried that Rozali might divorce her, said Aritonang.

"She said she was upset because Rozali had abandoned her for
months and only cared for his first wife," he said.

Rozali, who was being treated at Cipto Mangunkusumo General
Hospital, visited the hospital's morgue to look at Nuraida's
body, which had been transferred there for a post mortem
examination.

He told reporters that he used to love Nuraida but not
anymore.

"She kept asking me to divorce my first wife and began to ask
for many other things. I slowly learned that she had a bad
temper," said Rozali, who was accompanied by relatives and
friends.

He said Wednesday's incident at Tanah Tinggi occurred after
they were involved in a heated argument with each other.

The quarrel was reportedly overheard by neighbors, who later
attacked Nuraida when she tried to flee from the scene, said
Rozali.

Another police source said that Nuraida was not very
cooperative with police while in the hospital.

She often cried and refused to eat her meals, and sometimes
yelled asking for her husband's forgiveness, said Capt. Suwito of
the Johar Baru Police Subprecinct.

"But I think we'll continue with the investigation of
Nuraida's death. That's why we sent the body to this hospital for
a post mortem examination," he said. (04/cst)