Belfast Telegraph

Man killed after falling off Christmas tree in Fife

- BY LAURA PATERSON

A MAN has died after falling from a town’s Christmas tree in Scotland.

Emergency services were called when people leaving a club found the injured man in a street in Kirkcaldy, Fife, early yesterday.

He was taken to hospital but later died.

Police have cordoned off the 12ft tree outside Kirkcaldy Town House.

A Police Scotland spokesman said: “Police in Fife were called to a report of an unresponsi­ve man in the Hunter Street area of Kirkcaldy around 2.55am on Friday, December 14.

“The man was treated at the scene then conveyed to Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy by the Scottish Ambulance Service where he later sadly passed away.

“The death is being treated as non-suspicious and inquiries are ongoing to establish the full circumstan­ces.”

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