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.