‘Egyptian worker dies after fall from building’

AMMAN — A 41-year-old Egyptian man died on Tuesday night after falling from a crane while cleaning windows at a building in Amman, official sources said on Wednesday.

The victim was cleaning and doing maintenance work on the fifth-floor windows of a building near the Kilo Circle (Al Haramein Intersection) at 11pm when he fell from the 22-metre high crane, an official from the Civil Defence Department (CDD) said.

“The victim was rushed to a nearby hospital but was declared dead on arrival,” the CDD official told The Jordan Times.

Head of the National Institute of Forensic Medicine Kais Koussous said an autopsy was performed on the victim on Wednesday and indicated that he died of heavy bleeding and multiple bruises and fractures to the skull.

“His injuries are consistent with falling from a high place and we did not find any evidence of foul play,” Koussous told The Jordan Times.

Public Security Department Spokesperson Lt. Col. Amer Sartawi told The Jordan Times that investigators are treating the incident as an accident.

However, the police official added, blood and tissue samples taken from the victim were sent to the crime lab as a routine process.