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A guest was killed after falling from the balcony of his room on the ninth floor of a hotel in the Cleopatra area on the Alexandria Corniche, Egypt.

Hotel workers found the body of the deceased lying on the street in the early hours of Friday, after he fell from the ninth floor of the hotel.

The police were informed and the body was taken to the Kom El Dikka morgue. A report was drawn up on the incident at the Sidi Gaber police station.

Sources said that the security forces are intensifying their efforts to uncover the circumstances of the incident, and to find out whether there is a criminal suspicion or not.