A young woman refused to open the door to police and neighbours who smelt gas from her apartment and attempted to rescue her while she thought it was a water company official demanding that she pay her bill.

Police arrived outside the young woman's apartment after a neighbour reported that he could smell gas.

They knocked the door, but no one answered. Fearing that the young woman may have been poisoned by the gas, they broke down the door and found the woman hiding in her bedroom.

She later admitted that she did not open the door because she thought it was the man who had come to collect her water bill.

As to the gas leakage, the woman said that she was used to the smell, which she said was from an outdated water heater.