Shanghai — A Chinese woman trapped in a locked room for 30 hours was finally rescued after she flung a pillow bearing a message written in her own blood out of a window, according to a local government statement.

The woman, only identified by her surname Zhou, was cleaning a guesthouse in western China's Sichuan province when she entered a bedroom without her phone, according to an article published by a local government social media account earlier this month.

What followed was one and a half days of desperation, after Zhou realised that the door could not be opened from the inside due to a malfunctioning lock.

She had no access to food and there was no toilet in the room, which was on the sixth floor of the building.

"After many failed attempts to save herself, and out of desperatio

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