TWO WOMEN JUMP FROM WINDOW

Two suspected drug addicts were injured when they jumped from the
fourth story of a residential building in Shanghai's Baoshan District
on Thursday afternoon. The pair were allegedly trying to escape from
police.

The two, both Shanghai women, a 21-year-old surnamed Zhang and a
25-year-old surnamed Chen, jumped from a kitchen window and landed on
a platform on the second floor, after police officers knocked at the
door.

Two officers went to a residential building at 78 Changjiang Road S.
about 2:10pm after being tipped off that someone was using drugs on
the fourth floor.

When they knocked on the door, Zhang allegedly saw the officers
through the door's spy-hole, and told her mother not to open the door.

Police then heard a neighbor living below shouting that someone had
jumped off the building.

A resident surnamed Chen, who lives on the second floor, said he saw
one woman sitting on the platform outside his kitchen window.

Another resident, surnamed Shi, said firefighters arrived about 20
minutes later and helped the two women get down from the platform and
took them to hospital.

Zhang had recently been released from a drug rehabilitation center,
police said. Drug users are only sent to rehabilitation centers if
they are found taking drugs repeatedly.

"If we find a drug addict we try to educate them first," said Zeng Ni,
media coordinator with Baoshan District police.