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British man falls to death in Kunming

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-08-15 02:23

KUNMING:A British man fell to his death off a hotel building Friday afternoon in this capital city of southwest China's Yunnan Province, local police confirmed.Police received the report at about 2 p.m. that the man was found dead outside the Chuncheng Star Hotel on Beijing Road.

The man probably fell from a stairway window between the 12th and 13th floors, police said after initial investigation.

He hit a parked car before he died.

Police found nothing on the man to identify him, but only his mobile phone helped find some clues, with which police later knew that the man was from Britain and taught at a college under the Kunming University of Science and Technology.Police are investigating the cause of the death.