A 15 year old British student fell to his death from a building in Cordoba, Spain on October 19th at 11.30pm.
According to a local newspaper, Max McMullen, a pupil at Beechen Cliff School in Bath was attempting to fix a blind when he fell through the window of the seventh floor apartment.
Local media reports say that he was on a school language exchange at the time and had been in the city for less than a week,
A spokesman for the local emergency services said: “A 15-year-old youngster has died in Cordoba after falling from a seventh-floor bathroom window. We were alerted around 11.25pm on Saturday night to say a person had fallen from a window at an apartment block in Calle Periodista Quesada Chacón. Emergency services including police and medical responders were alerted but the youngster was already dead when they arrived, following what police have indicated was an accidental fall.”
"There doesn’t appear to be any signs of criminality or evidence pointing to the involvement of anyone else.”
Cordoba education chief Inmaculada Troncoso said in a statement: ‘We deeply regret what has happened. We are offering support to the school where the boy was, as well as his family.’
The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office have said: “We are supporting the family of a British child who died following an incident in Cordoba in Spain.”
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