US: Girl dies after falling from 25th storey

Saturday, August 28, 2010, 11:49 [IST]

New York, Aug 28: A 17-year-old daughter of the US ambassador to Thailand was killed on Friday, Aug 27 after falling out of a window from a 25th storey apartment in New York, police said.

Nicole John was at the party with her friends when the incident took place, New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.

"At the scene there was a camera. She may have looked out of the window to take a picture" before she fell to her death, he added.

The case has been registered and the owner of the apartment is under arrest for allowing such a young girl to drink on his premises.

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