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Domestic help's desperate escape act

Staff Correspondent
A minor domestic help yesterday sustained injuries ?s she fell from a high rise, TWin Tower, at Shantinagar in the city’ in her desperate attempt to clamber down a 22-storey building to save herself from, the wrath of her mistress.
Rekha, 10, who hailed from Munshipara of Rangpur, was rushed to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) where she was undergoing treatment.
Sub-inspector Mohammad Nurul Huda of Paltan Police Station said she was climbing
SEE PAGE 15 COL 4 FROM PAGE 1 down from the 16th floor. When she reached seventh floor she fell off and landed on the concrete awning of the third floor from where locals rescued her.
Locals rushed her to DMCH with injuries in her head and chest.
Rekha at DMCH told The Daily Star that her mistress beat her as she requested her to let her go home the previous morning, the day she was supposed to visit her village home.
At one stage her mistress locked the door of the apartment, leaving her inside alone and left the house, she added.
"My mistress mercilessly beat me up with a cricket stump when I was watering plants on the balcony. I decided to run away by climbing down the balcony grill risking my life," she said.
She said she had to do domestic chores from early morning to late night and was severely beaten up if she was found even with a minor fault.
Mohammad Liton, driver of a private car in the building said, "Around 10:00am I saw a crowd of several hundred people in front of the building. As I went over I found a girl climbing down the balcony grill of the eighth floor."
When contacted a security guard of the building said while the girl was climbing down, he informed the mem-
bers of the apartment committee and all the people of the apartment building.
Locals alleged the apartment committee did not come forward to the girl's help.
Rekha could not identify the floor where she used to work and even she did not know the name of her employers.
. .Police said, employer Zakir Hossain filed a general diary with Paltan Police Station in this connection. Nobody was arrested as of 10:30pm.