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25-year-old man jumps from balcony, dies while police conduct search

A 25-year-old man has died after jumping off an apartment balcony while Montreal police conducted a planned search, Wednesday, February 1, 2017. Staff / Global News

As the Montreal police conducted a planned search of an apartment shortly before 7 a.m. Wednesday, a 25-year-old man jumped from the apartment’s balcony.

According to a news release on Quebec’s Bureau of Independent Investigations (BEI) website, the apartment was on the sixth floor of the building.

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The man was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead.

The BEI have not said in what neighbourhood the apartment was or why the police were searching it.

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