A Chinese woman, aged 27, fall at Kuala Lumpur International, in Malaysia, before an Algerian man, aged 30, also died in two separate incidents on Friday
Two people have fallen to their deaths at Kuala Lumpur International Airport(Image: FAZRY ISMAIL/EPA/Shutterstock)
Two tourists have plunged to their deaths from a balcony at a Malaysian airport just hours apart.
Horrified passengers saw a Chinese woman, aged 27, fall at Kuala Lumpur International before an Algerian man, aged 30, also died in two separate incidents which are not though to be related on Friday, said local police.
The woman was seen sitting on a ledge before falling at around 2:20pm on May 1 – with local authorities saying she had been “crying and screaming aggressively” just before her death.
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Security personnel and Kuala Lumpur International staff had attempted to calm the woman but she struggled and fell to the KLIA2 loading bay. She was taken to Putrajaya Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Police in the Malaysian capital revealed she had been scheduled to board a return flight to China on May 1 and an investigtion had been launched into what happened.
And then at around 9:10pm, a 30-year-old Algerian man jumped from the outer balcony area on the third floor of Terminal 2. KLIA police chief M Ravi said that a witness saw the man go past a safety barrier before tragically falling off a ledge.
Emergency services found him at the scene before taking him to Cyberjaya Hospital for treatment but he died at 2.55am this morning after succumbing to his injuries. Local police urged the public not to speculate on either incident.
“A medical team that arrived at the scene provided emergency treatment, and the man was taken to Cyberjaya Hospital for further treatment. At about 2.55am today, the hospital confirmed that he had died,” Ravi reportedly said in a statement.
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