'Suicide' at luxury Sandton hotel
2007-12-04 11:16
Johannesburg - A woman who plunged to her death from the sixth floor of an exclusive Sandton hotel early on Tuesday is believed to have committed suicide, emergency services told News24.
"As far as we're concerned it's a suicide," said spokesperson Malcolm Midgley.
Security from the upmarket Michelangelo Hotel in Sandton found the woman's mangled body in a courtyard in the complex, according to Midgley.
The Michelangelo Hotel is located on Nelson Mandela Square in Sandton.
Security called emergency services, who arrived at 04:15.
The woman, believed to be in her fifties, had died from multiple injuries.
Staff at first insisted that nothing had happened when News24 contacted the hotel.
A spokesperson later said the hotel had no comment about the incident.