[click image]British nuclear expert falls 120ft to his death in Vienna=======================================
A British nuclear expert has fallen to his death from the 17th floor of the United Nations offices in Vienna.
Published: 6:17PM BST 21 Oct 2009
The 47-year-old man, who has not been named, died after falling more than 120ft to the bottom of a stairwell.
He worked for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, an international agency charged with uncovering illicit nuclear tests.
A UN spokesman in the Austrian capital said there were no "suspicious circumstances" surrounding the man's death, while a police spokesman said that no other person was believed to have been involved.
No suicide note has been found.
The incident happened on Tuesday as the United States, France, Russia and Iran held talks close by aimed at cooling tensions over Tehran's nuclear programme.
Investigators refused to reveal any further background information on the official but confirmed an autopsy will be held.
Four months ago another UN worker also believed to be British fell a similar distance at the same building, according to other staff working there.
Brit UN nuclear expert may have been murdered, police sayI've been looking for quite some time and cannot find reference to the earlier death... so far.... Bunch of stuff from various European "Times" papers on May 25th, but they don't link to an article, just include this latest one down under where the article goes....
22. 10. 09. - 14:00
By Thomas Hochwarter
A British nuclear energy expert who plunged 40 metres to his death at the United Nations’ (UN) building in Vienna may have been murdered, police said today (Thurs).
Timothy Hampton died on the spot on Tuesday after falling from a 17th floor window at the Vienna International Centre (VIC) - one of the UN’s three headquarters.
The UN confirmed the death of the 47-year-old – who was involved in disarmament negotiations with Iran as a member of the UN’s Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) – but refused to give any further information on the circumstances of the fatality.
A police spokesman told the Austrian Times today that investigators had not ruled out murder as no suicide note has been found.
"Whenever there is a case where others may have been involved we will investigate all the possible scenarios. Murder is one possibility, suicide another," the spokesman said.
He added investigators were waiting for the result of an autopsy.
UN staff told the Austrian Times yesterday that there had been a similar case just recently in which an employee died when he fell from a similar height at the landmark buildings in Vienna-Donaustadt.
Am I doing something wrong or is every English language publication on earth yanking itself from the public sphere to be made available only to people who can pay a bleeding fortune to have Lexis/Nexis at their disposal? And if this is true, why aren't there any articles out by now with the information from the earlier death? Doesn't anyone think we're interested?
two lists
ReplyDelete1. four months ago, who's on the 17th fl., where
2. day this happened, who's on the 17th fl., where
Compare, analyze, maybe find nothing.
How about some safety net's in the stairwell? One every three floors. How did architects make buildings this dangerous, and get signed off?
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