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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Alan Weston

Central Library remains closed for second day after fall tragedy

Efforts are still being made to establish the identity of a man who plunged to his death from the upper floor of Liverpool Central Library .

Emergency services , including a large police presence, were called to the scene at just after 9am yesterday.

Sadly, the man was pronounced dead at the scene, on William Brown Street.

The library remained closed for a second day today.

A sign positioned outside the entrance said it would be closed throughout today due to "an incident."

The library is due to re-open tomorrow.

Police confirmed the next of kin of the deceased had not been traced at this stage.

They previously said the death of the man was not being treated as suspicious.

He is believed to be in his 40s and from the Toxteth area.

The scene yesterday outside Liverpool Central Library (Liverpool Echo/James Maloney)

Horrified witnesses  who were in the library at the time of yesterday's incident  told the ECHO of their horror at watching the man fall to his death  from an upper floor.

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