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| City worker dies plunging from seventh floor of London Stock Exchange | |
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| A man has died after falling from the seventh floor of the London Stock Exchange. | A man has died after falling from the seventh floor of the London Stock Exchange. |
| A spokesperson for the City of London Police said officers were called to the landmark shortly before 10am "to a report of a man who had fallen from an upper floor in the building to the ground". | |
| “London Ambulance Service attended and the man was pronounced dead at 10.10am," he added. | “London Ambulance Service attended and the man was pronounced dead at 10.10am," he added. |
| “The City of London Police is currently investigating the circumstances around the death and the incident is being treated as non-suspicious. | “The City of London Police is currently investigating the circumstances around the death and the incident is being treated as non-suspicious. |
| “We are now working to inform the man’s next of kin.” | “We are now working to inform the man’s next of kin.” |
| Witnesses said a screen had been erected around the man's body in the lobby, below a seventh-floor walkway protected by a glass barrier. | |
| There has been a series of fatal falls in London's financial district in recent years, including a man who fell from a Hilton hotel's rooftop bar and several people who have fallen from the Coq D'Argent restaurant's terrace. | |
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