British teenager dies on school exchange trip after 'falling from building' in Spain

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Tim Baker20 October 2019

A 15-year-old British teenager has died in Spain after falling from a building's seventh floor, according to reports.

Local media in Cordoba said that the child was thought to be on a school exchange at the time and that he fell through an open window in an apartment building.

ABC Cordoba reported the teenager was fixing a window blind in the bedroom when he fell.

According to Diario Cordoba, the police are treating the death as accidental.

Cordoba is located around 156 miles north of Gibraltar and near Seville.

Inmaculada Troncoso, a local education official, released a statement saying: "We deeply regret what has happened.

"We are offering support to the school where the boy was as well as his family."

A spokesperson for the Foreign and Commonealth Office told the Standard: “We are supporting the family of a British child who died following an incident in Cordoba in Spain.”

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