Suicide In Dubai Man jumps off Burj Khalifa
A man threw himself off the world’s tallest building in Dubai.
The man, believed to be in his twenties and of South Asian background, jumped from the 147th floor of the 828-metre skyscraper and landed on a terrace on the 108th floor, local daily The National reported, but those details were not confirmed by the building’s developer. Emaar said it had a recorded an “incident involving a male” at its Burj Khalifa site on Tuesday morning.
The man may have worked at a company inside the 160-storey building, the paper said, adding that police said statements showed a holiday he had requested was turned down.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 11th, 2011.
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