KOCHI : A 23-year-old youth jumped off the terrace of an 11-storey hotel building at Kadavanthra on Monday noon. The deceased is Chris George of Ponnurunni. The body was severely disfigured as it fell on a gate at the entrance to the building, said a source.
“We don’t know if he was a staying at the hotel. Some of the employees of the roof-top bar hotel functioning in the same building identified that the youth was a customer,” a local resident said.
A suicide note was recovered from the body which read: “All good things must come to an end, and when my good things die, I too shall die with it.”
“We rushed to the spot after hearing about the incident. Mental distress might have led the youth to take the extreme step. We recovered a suicide note from the spot and a probe is on into the incident,” said a police officer of Ernakulam town south police station.
The body was released to relatives after a postmortem examination at the Ernakulam General Hospital.
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