Woman rescued while streaming suicide attempt on Facebook

Police and rescue volunteers gather in front of a tutoring school in Ratchaburi on Monday night as a woman employee threatens jump to her death. She was assisted to safety. (Photo taken by Saichon Srinuanchan)
Police and rescue volunteers gather in front of a tutoring school in Ratchaburi on Monday night as a woman employee threatens jump to her death. She was assisted to safety. (Photo taken by Saichon Srinuanchan)

RATCHABURI: A young woman live streaming her intended suicide on Facebook was rescued as she threatened to jump from a building in Muang district on Monday night.

The 23-year-old, whose name was withheld, was sitting on a ledge near the top of a 3-storey building housing a tutoring school when police and rescue volunteers arrived at the scene around 9pm.

The woman, who works at the school, kept crying and saying that nobody understood her, as she live streamed on Facebook. Her friends at the school had tried unsuccessfully to console her, police said.

As she showed no sign of abandoning her suicide plan, rescuers prepared a giant air cushion to break her fall and told bystanders to keep away. 

A team of disaster prevention and rescue workers went inside the building while another team in front of the building talked with her to divert her attention.  The rescue team used this opportunity to pull her inside the building, police said.

Her colleagues told police the woman often complained that she had not been able to find steady employment and financial stability since graduating, and she felt her parents were sad and disappointed in her. She had earlier received treatment for depression.

After being rescued, the woman was taken to Ratchaburi Hospital.

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Vocabulary

  • abandon: to stop doing an activity before you have finished it - เลิก
  • bystander: a person who is standing near and watching something that is happening but is not taking part in it - ผู้เห็นเหตุการณ์, ผู้สังเกตการณ์
  • console: to try to make someone feel better when they are unhappy or disappointed - ปลอดประโลม
  • cushion (noun): a cloth bag filled with soft material feathers or air that is used, for example, to make a seat more comfortable - เบาะ, เครื่องกันกระแทก
  • depression: a medical condition in which a person is so unhappy that they cannot live a normal life - ความสะเทือนใจ, ความเศร้าสลด, ความหดหู่
  • divert: to take someone's attention away from something - เปลี่ยนเส้นทางจาก
  • ledge (n): a narrow flat piece of rock that sticks out from a cliff -
  • live stream (verb): to broadcast or receive live video and sound of an event over the Internet -
  • stability: a situation in which things happen as they should and there are no harmful changes; when something is not likely to move or change - ความมั่นคง, เสถียรภาพ
  • suicide: the action of deliberately killing yourself - การฆ่าตัวตาย
  • withheld (verb): to deliberately not give something to someone - ไม่เปิดเผย, ไม่อนุญาต, ระงับ, ถอนกลับ

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