District police chief ACP Sum Chang Keong said in a statement late last night that the incident happened at 3.10pm and initial investigations found no element of crime in Shanina Mohamad Zuhairi’s death.

She was formerly a patient at Hospital Bahagia Ulu Kinta.

“A scrutiny of the closed-circuit television recording showed the deceased going up to the eighth floor and wandering around talking to herself while gesturing with her hands.

“She was then seen going down to the seventh floor from where she jumped,” he said.

Meanwhile, the dead woman’s elder sister Syahirah, 23, said the victim had returned from Indonesia on Tuesday where she had sought traditional treatment for the “emotional disturbance” she had been suffering for the past few months.

“She used to receive psychiatric treatment but was no longer on medication after being advised by her doctor that she had already recovered.

“But after getting married six months ago, her illness returned and we believed she was a victim of black magic,” Syahirah said when met at the hospital.

The deceased’s mother Zabidah Kintan, 51, on arrival at the hospital, fainted when she saw her daughter’s body and was treated at the HRPB emergency ward.

This is the second high-profile incident at the hospital in four months. On Nov 9, smoke from a small fire at the hospital caused a commotion among the 43 patients there.

Hospital staff and some family members of patients managed to put out the fire within minutes while patients were wheeled out to safety.