Suicidal woman crushes pedestrian to death after leaping from eighth floor



A suicidal woman who jumped from an eighth floor window crushed a passer-by to death in an horrific accident.



The woman hurled herself from the balcony in Viladecans, near Barcelona, and landed on top of a 50-year-old pedestrian who was walking below.



The jumper died instantly, and the man, from the Ukraine, died in hospital shortly afterwards from his injuries.

The town of Viladecans, close to Barcelona, where the unnamed woman leaped to her death

His wife, who was walking with him at the time, escaped with minor injuries in the incident, which happened at 5.45 on Monday evening.

A spokesman for the Mossos d'Escuadra, the local police force, said: 'This is a terrible tragedy and a horrific way to die.

'We are not releasing the names of either of the deceased out of respect for their families.

'"The dead man's wife is distraught.

'We don't believe the woman who jumped had any intention of harming anybody else.

'It was just horribly bad luck that the man was walking underneath at the moment she jumped.'

Reports in Spain said the 50-year-old man was from the Ukraine.

But the police spokesman said: 'He was Spanish, from the neighbouring town of Gava.'

A unnamed neighbour said: 'I heard a horrible thud and a scream, and then the sirens of the police and ambulance.'