Teen Falls to Death in St. Paul's Cathedral

Late Monday afternoon, St. Paul's Cathedral tweeted that it was shutting down for the rest of the day. News on why soon followed: A teenager fell to his death from the building's Whispering Gallery, almost 260 steps up (nearly 100 feet) inside the dome. A City of London Police spokeswoman says a report came in just before 4pm local time that a "male in his late teens ... had fallen from the gallery"; his death isn't being treated as suspicious, the Evening Standard reports. A London Ambulance Service rep says the young man died at the scene despite efforts to resuscitate him, per the Guardian. CNN notes a woman plunged to her death from the Whispering Gallery in 2017. (More St. Paul's Cathedral stories.)