A woman survived throwing herself from the 23rd storey of a Buenos Aires hotel when a waiting taxi broke her fall.
She landed in a sitting position on its roof just after the driver got out. The impact deeply dented the roof and shattered the windscreen.
Taxi driver Miguel Cajal said he got out of his parked taxi and ran for safety when he saw a policeman looking up at the woman, who fell from the top of the Hotel Crown Plaza Panamericano, where a
restaurant overlooks the landmark Obelisk in central Buenos Aires.
The 33-year-old woman was in the intensive care ward of a local hospital after the suicide attempt, the Telam agency said.
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