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An Asian man has committed suicide by jumping off from the 24th floor of a building in Silicon Oasis, Dubai.

An official statement was issued by Dubai Police, stating that the building’s security guard called Al Rashidiya Police Station to report that a man has fallen to his death.

Brigadier Saeed Hamad Bin Sulaiman Al Malik, Director of Al Rashidiya Police Station and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Police Station, said that the jumper tricked the watchman and claimed to be looking for an apartment to rent. He then headed to the apartment alone, took his shoes off and left his phone behind in the balcony, before jumping to his death.

The man stayed in the apartment for 12 minutes before jumping off the balcony, and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Surveillance cameras and forensic reports confirmed that he committed suicide.

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Recently, an Asian national died when his vehicle fell from the third storey of parking at the Dubai Airport Cargo Village as he was reversing the vehicle to park it.

According to Brigadier Saif Muhair Al Mazrouei, Director of Traffic Department at the Dubai Police, a tipoff was received by the Command and Control centre at the General Directorate of Operations alerting that a car had fallen from the third storey at the Cargo Village.

Immediately after receiving the tipoff, the police patrols  rushed to the scene where it was found that the car fell when it was being driven backwards, resulting in the death of the driver and damage to the car.