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Durban man survives fall from seventh floor

26 November 2018 - 10:39 By JEFF WICKS
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Police personnel rescued a 47-year-old man who plunged from the 7th floor of a Durban building on Sunday.
Police personnel rescued a 47-year-old man who plunged from the 7th floor of a Durban building on Sunday.
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A retired sailor is lucky to be alive after a five-storey plunge from a Durban beachfront flat on Sunday.

It is understood that the man, 47, fell from the 7th floor and plunged on to a mesh awning on the second floor.

Police personnel from the search and rescue unit found the badly injured man trapped on the awning and took him to hospital.

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