Suicide at Leaning Tower of Pisa

[Yukimura Sanada]

Woman jumps to death from Leaning Tower of Pisa : police

Agence France-Presse
First Posted 22:32:00 06/06/2010

ROME-- A 31-year-old woman committed suicide Sunday by jumping off the Leaning Tower of Pisa, police in the Tuscan city told AFP.

"It was a suicide," a police spokeswoman said, adding that the woman suffered from depression. "She managed to climb over the balustrade and jump."

The last reported suicide from the landmark freestanding bell tower of Pisa's 12th-century cathedral was in 2002.