CNN International, 23 May 2012
Singapore (CNN) -- It's an annual tragedy in Singapore: domestic maids falling to their deaths from high rise apartments, often while carrying out duties such as cleaning outside windows.
This year's grim tally swiftly ticked up to nine, when an Indonesian worker died on Thursday and then in the early hours on Tuesday, a Burmese worker fell 13 floors to her death.
While the cause of those latest deaths is still under investigation, the other eight deaths occurred while the women were cleaning the outside of windows or reaching out to hang laundry from poles inserted outside the apartment window -- a common sight on the Singapore skyline. Full story
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