Plea scrawled in blood saves woman trapped 30 hours in locked room

A Chinese woman trapped in a locked room for hours was eventually rescued after she flung a pillow bearing a message written in her own blood out of a window according to a local ruling body comment 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 governing body social media account earlier this month What followed was one and a half days of desperation after Zhou realized that the door could not be opened from the inside due to a malfunctioning lock She had no access to food and there was no toilet in the room which was on the sixth floor of the building After a great number of failed attempts to save herself and out of desperation she bit her finger and used the blood to write on a pillow which she then threw out the window the social media account owned by the local authorities in Sichuan s Leshan city declared The number of the room the woman was trapped in was and is the urgency services phone number in China Zhou s message was spotted by food delivery driver Zhang Kun who right now called the police I was pretty scared but when I saw the number on the pillow I realized this might be a distress call Zhang announced in the local establishment comment Videos published by local media revealed a dishevelled-looking Zhou thanking police officers after they kicked open the door to her temporary prison I went in there the previous evening morning and it s been one day and one night Zhou can be heard saying in the video Good Samaritan Zhang was awarded yuan by officials in Leshan for his role in the rescue Source