NYC - United Nations Headquarters, by wallyg at flickr
A woman appears to have fallen or jumped from a very high floor of the U.N. Secretariat Building at 405 East 42nd St. early today. Per wcbstv.com, U.N. security personnel escorted detectives and NYPD officers to the rear of the building, where the woman's body was splayed out on the lawn. She was quickly covered with a sheet and the area was cordoned with yellow tape. It's believed that the dead woman was an employee at the United Nations, although her identity has not been revealed.
Persons close to the investigation, but not authorized to discuss it, anonymously told the Associated Press that the woman was a 45-year-old Australian who came to work Sunday morning and jumped from the 19th floor of the 39-story building. The last suicide at the Secretariat Building was in 1982, when a just-retired employee upset over his failing health jumped to his death from the 18th floor.
