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KOCHI: A domestic help who fell from an apartment complex in Marine Drive succumbed to her injuries. She has been identified as Kumari, a native of Salem in Tamil Nadu. She is in her fifties. She died Sunday early morning. The police had registered a case against the flat owner. She fell on to the portico of the building while trying to climb down from its sixth floor by tying sarees together.

She sustained serious head and leg injuries after falling from the sixth floor of the Horizon flat in Kochi. She had gone home during the lockdown and was back to work only a few days back. She wanted to go home again but when the flat owner denied permission, she locked the door of the kitchen from inside and tried to flee via balcony. She slipped and fell down and sustained serious injuries.