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N.Y. staffer said to jump to death

From Times Wire Reports

A woman who worked for the United Nations died after falling from the 19th floor of the U.N.’s Secretariat Building, authorities said.

Police and U.N. security officers said the woman, in her 40s, had jumped from a window.

U.N. deputy spokeswoman Marie Okabe said, “At this time there is no suspicion of foul play.”

Okabe said U.N. officials would not confirm her identity even after her next of kin were notified.

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In 1982, a 57-year-old senior U.N. official who had just resigned plunged to his death from the 18th floor of the building.

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