Crane suicide rescue
In a dramatic five-hour rescue operation, Pretoria firefighters and members of the police air wing plucked a city woman to safety seconds before she could fall to her death off a 50m high construction crane.
The drama, involving two police helicopters and dozens of firefighters and paramedics from across Pretoria, unfolded when the woman, in her 40s, climbed up a tower crane at the abandoned The Villa shopping centre in Wingate Park on Monday morning.
The woman parked her car and handed her cellphone to a passerby whom she asked to call her husband, before climbing over a metal fence into the guarded construction site.
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