28-year-old killed in balcony fall

A 28-year-old man in the district of Břevnov in Prague on Sunday fell ten stories from an apartment balcony to his death. A police spokeswoman said that the man, who was in a state of inebriation, apparently tried to climb to a neighboring balcony but failed. He died instantly. According to the police, his was not the only fall to which the authorities were alerted at the weekend: on Saturday evening police were alerted to a 58-year-old man who had fallen onto the subway tracks at Národní třída station; he was lifted out just moments before the arrival of a metro train. According to the police, the man had been drinking.