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Yet another young woman has died at the infamous Mediterania Apartments in West Jakarta, this time due to an apparent suicide.

Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Boy Rafli Amar said the student from the Informatics Business Institute in Sunter, North Jakarta, appeared to have leaped to her death from the 25th floor of one of the towers.

“She was suspected to have committed suicide due to depression,” Boy said. “She was in a depressed state.”

He identified the victim as Cherry Christa Bela Elega Varia, aged 21 years.

Boy said police had yet to obtain a complete picture of what transpired because surviving family members had been left traumatized by the death.

From initial inquiries, however, he said that Cherly had been left briefly alone — her cousin, Suparman, was asleep, her aunt, Meli Wijaya, was using a bathroom and her mother, Purjanjingsih Wijaya, 55, was using an ATM on the ground floor of the complex — and used the opportunity to jump to her death.

Boy said when Purjanjingsih returned to the apartment, she noticed an open window in the kitchen and grew alarmed.

Looking out the window, she was shocked to see a body on the ground floor of the apartment, he said, adding that the mother became hysterical after confirming the death of her daughter.

Boy said police were yet to conclude the death as a suicide.

Last November, police asked the apartment’s management to increase security measures and require identification cards from guests before they entered the premises, after three unrelated women were murdered at the apartments in separate attacks in 2009.