Three people 'facing deportation' die in plunge from tower block

THE deaths of three people who plunged to their deaths from a high rise block of flats are not being treated as suspicious, police said last night.

The bodies of two men and a woman were found at the bottom of a 30-storey block in Petershill Drive, Springburn, Glasgow, at 8.45am yesterday.

A Strathclyde Police spokesman said: "Inquiries are ongoing to establish the identities of the three people involved and post mortem examinations will take place in due course to establish the exact cause of death, however, at this time there does not appear to be any suspicious circumstances."

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It is believed the victims fell from the 15th floor of Block 63.

Their 51-year-old neighbour said they had lived there for two months but she did not know them.

Resident Elaine Sandford, 40, said she believed the deceased were Kosovans who faced deportation.

She said: "I think they had a letter through the door that said they were coming back for them.

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"You only think you see these things on the telly. The same thing happened last year from another block but it wasn't as bad as this."

Elizabeth Neilson, 42, who lives in the opposite block, said: "I opened my blinds and saw them lying there this morning at about 8.30am.

"I saw two concierge standing there and three bodies lying on the ground.

"It is horrible. I was traumatised. I phoned the concierge and he said he couldn't say much, but that three people had thrown themselves off the veranda."

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For much of the day the flats were cordoned off by police and officers stood guard.

In recent years some of the flats have housed asylum seekers from Kosovo, Africa, Asia, the former Soviet Union, Iran and Iraq.

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