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Alberta’s police watchdog has launched an investigation after a woman fell to her death from a fifth-storey balcony as Calgary police executed a drug-related search warrant early Wednesday.

The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team was called in to investigate the woman’s death, which police say occurred without them physically contacting her.

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The warrant was executed in the 200 block of 1st Street S.E. and was deemed high risk, police said, due to the belief there were firearms in the residence.

At around 12:30 a.m., police arrested a male outside the fifth-floor apartment in relation to a shooting investigation and outstanding warrants. Police said officers were made aware of a female inside, before surrounding the residence and encouraging her to surrender.

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At some point, the woman went over a balcony railing and was found injured on the ground below, police said. Officers provided first aid before she was transported to hospital in life-threatening condition, where she later died.