Man plunges to death from Greece’s Acropolis

ATHENS, (Reuters) – A man died after jumping  off Greece’s Acropolis, a major tourist attraction visited by  millions every year, police said yesterday.
  
Tourists witnessed the man’s plunge, police said, adding he  was not Greek and believed to be in his late twenties.  
“Witnesses said he ran and jumped off the Acropolis hill  killing himself,” a police official said. “We believe it is a suicide but we are still investigating.”  

Police said it was a rare case but not the first time  someone had jumped off the 150-metre-high flat-topped rock on  top of which stands the fifth century BC Parthenon temple built  in the Golden Age of Athens.

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