A 52-year-old Colombian woman fell to her death Wednesday night trying to flee a hotel in Toyoyama, Aichi Prefecture, where she was being held pending deportation, police said Thursday.
Lida Ordonez was trying to escape out the window of her fourth-story room with her 3-year-old granddaughter when she fell 15 meters to her death at around 11:20 p.m., police said. The young girl also fell but suffered only light facial injuries.
Police said Ordonez and her granddaughter arrived at Nagoya airport from Bogota aboard a Lufthansa flight Wednesday morning. They were refused entry after authorities found the address in Japan she gave to immigration officers was that of an illegal foreign resident.
The airline, which is required to send the woman and the child back to their home country, put the two up in the Toyoyama hotel and stationed a security guard outside their room. Police said Ordonez broke a window of her room and tried to climb out using a rope made from bedsheets.
A passerby found the two lying on the ground and informed the hotel. The security guard told police he did not notice the escape attempt, according to police.