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A ladder lies in the awning the morning after the woman fell and died at the Auckland Habour Suites complex on Sunday morning.
A man ran out of an apartment complex in central Auckland chased by several police officers shortly after a woman fell and died from a balcony, a witness says.
Witnesses to the early morning tragedy have described the frantic and chaotic aftermath of the young woman’s fatal fall at the Auckland Harbor Suites complex at around 3.30am on Sunday.
The police have launched an investigation, but their investigations are still in the early stages and the death remains classified as “unexplained”.
The Gore St apartments are opposite the SO / Auckland hotel, which is used as a managed isolation facility.
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A guest there, who Stuff He agreed not to name, said he heard an altercation around 3:30 a.m. and then went to investigate when he heard a woman screaming.
He saw a motionless woman in the awning over the ground level tents.
Shortly thereafter, the witness saw a shirtless man bolt from the compound, pursued by six or seven policemen.
They disappeared from sight before he could see if officers caught the man.
Student Brad Morrow lives on the first floor of Auckland Harbor Suites and said he also saw the immediate fallout unfold.
He said he believed the woman fell from an apartment on the ninth floor of the complex that was hosting a party that night.
Morrow and his companion had a clear vision of where the young woman lay, surrounded by blood.
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Emergency services rushed to the scene and climbed the canopy towards her, she said.
Paramedics spent time trying to treat her, but to no avail, she said.
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The Auckland Harbor Suites complex on Gore St, where a woman died early Sunday.
His body lay under a blanket until 7.30 in the morning when it was removed and a police cordon was lifted.
Morrow said that around that time, a group of distraught young men gathered at the entrance of the apartment.
He heard a woman yell at another man that “you had no right to take my sister’s life,” she said.
