Senior Swiss diplomat in Iran falls to her death from high-rise home in Tehran

Tehran — Iran's state-run news outlets reported on Tuesday that the First Secretary of the Swiss Embassy in Tehran, a high-ranking diplomat, had been found dead near the base of the high-rise building where she lived in the Iranian capital. The woman was not identified by Iranian or Swiss officials, but Iranian media said she was either 51or 52 years old and lived in a high-end northern Tehran neighborhood.

The Swiss Foreign Ministry confirmed that a member of the embassy's staff had died in an accident, but it provided no further information. Iran's media said she had fallen from her home on the 18th floor of the building.