The head of the Khorasan Razavi Public Security Police said that a young woman who intended to escape when partygoers were being arrested in a party fell down from the sixth floor of an apartment building in Mashhad and died on the spot.
“A number of the residents of a large residential area in the Hashemiyeh Blvd. in Mashhad had reported that suspicious people were coming and going to an apartment”, Colonel Naser Najarian said.
“The dissatisfied [neighbors] said they were holding loud parties”, he added.
“Special operation teams of the Public Security Police started an undercover observance of the site and last Wednesday night when a number of girls and boys were holding a party in the apartment, they searched the location after coordinating with judicial officials”.
“In this operation, four young men and 4 young women were arrested and unfortunately one of the young women who was trying to run away immediately after being informed of police presence fell off from the sixth floor of the building out of fear”, he said.
“In this incident, the young woman who sustained severe injuries in the head died on the spot”, the head of the Public Police said.
He said that the main suspect and two other suspects who had escaped were also arrested and handed over to judicial officials.
“The body of the victim of this evil party was transferred to the coroners”, he added. (ISNA state-run News Agency – Sep. 24, 2011)