This is the devastating moment rescue workers failed to save a suicidal man attempting to jump from a tower block in Peru.
The clip, cut short after the man slips from the emergency worker’s grasp, shows the unwell man trying desperately to leap from the side of a balcony.
Dangling from a rope on the edge of a tall building, the man intent on suicide slipped from the grasp of his would-be rescuer and plummeted 15 storeys to his death.
This is the devastating moment rescue workers failed to save a suicidal man attempting to jump from a tower block in Peru. The clip, cut short after the man slips from the emergency worker’s grasp, shows the unwell man trying desperately to leap from the side of a balcony
Screaming he wanted to die, the man was forced to let go of the railing by a Peruvian police officer, but the pair then swing out together before the tragedy struck.
Struggling to hold onto the jumper, the policeman then watches helplessly as he falls a 100 feet to his death and lands on the balcony of a third floor apartment in the Pueblo Libre district of the Peruvian capital.
According to officers, the 25-30-year-old man had screamed he wanted to die, but his identity and reasons for his suicide have not yet been determined.
Screaming he wanted to die, the man was forced to let go of the railing by a Peruvian police officer, but the pair then swing out together before the tragedy struck
Elsewhere, a woman in China had more luck after a firefighter grabbed her ponytail to prevent her from committing suicide from an apartment block.
The incident took place at a residential building in Qianwei city, in southwest China’s Sichuan province on February 22.
One selfless firefighter hung himself out of the balcony to grab the woman’s ponytail in a bid to rescue her.
The video posted online, seemed to be taken by a neighbour living in the next building.
It shows a young woman hanging loosely on the edge of the window shield on the fourth floor.
Onlookers said firefighters and family members of the woman attempted to calm her emotions.
Later, one firefighter ties a rope around his waist and climbs over the balcony to rescue the woman.