STUDENT JUMPS OFF LEANING TOWER OF PISA

(ANSA) - Pisa, September 12 - A 23-year-old Italian student committed suicide by jumping off the Leaning Tower of Pisa Monday.

The unidentified student was from Foggia in southern Italy but was studying in Pisa, police said. The motive for her act was unknown.

She is the second suicide at the Tower this year after a 22-year-old Dutch woman tourist jumped from the famous monument on April 29.