/ 4 January 2011

Suicidal New York man leaps, but saved by garbage pile

A would-be suicide jumper in New York was still alive on Monday after leaping from a ninth-floor window but landing in a giant heap of garbage uncollected since the city’s massive snowstorm a week ago.

Vangelis Kapatos (26) was hospitalised in critical but stable condition after jumping from his apartment on West 45th Street on Sunday afternoon, authorities said. — Reuters