Plea Written in Blood Saves Chinese Woman Trapped in Locked Room
A food delivery driver found a blood-written distress message on a pillow and alerted police, leading to the rescue of a woman trapped over 30 hours in a locked room.
- On August 12, a food delivery driver, Zhang Kun, spotted an abandoned pillow and alerted police, who found Zhou, the trapped woman, unconscious after being locked for 30 hours in Leshan city, Sichuan province.
- A gust of wind caused the door to slam, and the malfunctioning lock trapped Zhou in the locked guesthouse room, leaving her unable to open it from inside.
- After hours of failed attempts she resorted to writing `110 625` in blood on a pillow, which police officers showed to residents before forcing open Zhou's locked room.
- Authorities said the timely alert averted a tragedy, and authorities in Leshan awarded Zhang Kun 3,000 yuan after police officers rescued Zhou from the locked room.
- The incident grabbed headlines as media coverage described it as bizarre and chilling, while police statements characterised the pillow note as evidence of desperation, highlighting the public response in citizen vigilance and emergency awareness.
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Plea written in blood saves Chinese woman trapped in locked room
SHANGHAI: A Chinese woman trapped in a locked room for 30 hours was finally rescued after she flung a pillow bearing a message written in her own blood out of a window, according to a local government statement. © New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd
Locked 30 hours in a guest room in China, a woman was rescued with a message written with her blood on a pillow thrown out the window. A delivery man gave the alert.
She Was Trapped in a Room in China for 30 Hours and Was Rescued by a Message Written with Her Blood.
A woman managed to be rescued after being locked for 30 hours in a guest house room in the city of Leshan, Sichuan Province, China. The victim, identified as Zhou, had entered the place without her mobile phone while doing cleaning work.The door was blocked by a problem in the lock and could not be opened from the inside.Zhou was trapped on the sixth floor of the building, without food or access to a bathroom.A 300 thousand-year-old skull would …
Plea scrawled in blood on a pillow saves Chinese woman trapped in locked room for 30 hours
Shanghai — A Chinese woman trapped in a locked room for 30 hours was finally rescued after she flung a pillow bearing a message written in her own blood out of a window, according to a local government statement. The woman, only identified by her surname Zhou, was cleaning a guesthouse in western China’s Sichuan province when she entered a bedroom without her phone, according to an article published by a local government social media account ear…
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