Businessman falls to his death from Moscow flat

A Belgian businessman died after an apparent nine-storey fall from a block of flats in central Moscow.

Bruno Charles De Cooman was vice-president of research and development at the Russian group Novolipetsk Steel.

Tass news agency quoted a source as saying no traces of a struggle were found during a preliminary search of the businessman’s flat and police told Russian media they were not treating it as a criminal case.