An innocent bystander has suffered serious injuries after a woman fell to her death on top of him in a suspected suicide from a building rooftop in Melbourne CBD.
The male pedestrian was on a footpath in the city’s courts precinct on William St when the woman suddenly plunged from the sky and landed on him.
The woman was killed instantly, but the man, believed to be in his 30s, survived although he was critically injured.
It is understood the man was standing next to a building on William Street just before midday on Monday, when the woman fell from a height and landed on him.
Emergency services responded quickly, but the woman was pronounced dead at the scene.
The man suffered serious injuries to his upper body and was taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital.
Police said the woman’s death is not being treated as suspicious. A brief will be prepared for the coroner.
The incident comes just weeks after a bank worker died in a plunge from the 14th floor of an NAB corporate building in nearby Bourke Street in Docklands.
The incident is understood to have happened close to the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court (pictured)
Victoria Police confirmed it attended the suicide incident in the CBD on March 5.
A worker in NAB’s fraud division is understood to have taken his own life by plunging from the roof of the bank in front of his colleagues.
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