Malaysian clerk falls to her death after tiff with boyfriend

GEORGE TOWN (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - A 21-year-old parking attendant clung to the body of his girlfriend and sobbed for almost 45 minutes after she fell from the 17th floor of an apartment building after a quarrel with him.

Even after the police arrived and covered her body with a piece of white cloth, the man refused to let go.The body of Lau Kah Kah, 22, who worked as a clerk, was found lying under a broken awning at the walkway of the apartment by her boyfriend who had rushed there.

Residents from the apartment in Batu Uban who witnessed the scene had initially thought the two had jumped down from the building together and alerted the police.

It is learnt that Lau, had a heated argument and exchanged text messages with her boyfriend before falling from the apartment at about 12.30am (12.30am Singapore time) yesterday.