Woman rescued from imprisonment

A 43-year old Mainland Chinese woman was deterred from jumping off Edificio I Chan Kok in Rua de Pequim on Tuesday night, according to local broadcaster TDM Radio News. Police disclosed that the woman claimed that she had failed to repay loans borrowed from a loan-sharking group. The woman had allegedly been imprisoned in the building and was trying to escape. Last year, there were 441 cases related to loan-sharking, up 38.7 per cent from 318 cases in 2015, while the number of cases related to illegal detention hit 503, surging 37.4 per cent from 366 cases in 2015.