Sharjah Police have launched an investigation into the death of a 16-year-old Indian girl who fell from a high-rise building in the emirate. The teenager died on the spot after falling from the seventh floor of a residential building in Abu Shagara on Tuesday morning. Her body was taken to Al Qasimi Hospital before being transferred to Sharjah Police laboratory for an autopsy. Just last week, an 11-year-old British boy died after falling from the eighth floor of a building in Al Majaz.

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