A police watchdog has launched an investigation following the death of a man who fell from a hotel window in Glasgow.
Passers-by reported seeing the naked man falling from a fourth floor window of the Central Hotel which adjoins Glasgow Central Station.
Emergency services, including several police vans and ambulances, rushed to the scene shortly after 11am.
Witnesses said the man was seen hanging over a 40ft-high window on the city's Gordon Street close to the main entrance of the station.
They said officers were holding on to the man and that they may have been attempting to save him before he fell on to a coffee shop table below.
One witness, who did not want to be named, said: "There was a crowd, the guy was already hanging out the window.
"The police and the attendants had him by the ankles.
"He had his socks on, no other clothes on, and was hanging upside down.
"He was fighting away from the people who were trying to pull him back in to the window.
"You could see him actively pushing away off the window ledge and before long he fell.
"There had been an area cleared. He's destroyed a few coffee tables. It's sad, just shocking to see."
A spokeswoman for the Police Investigations & Review Commissioner confirmed tonight that the man died.
They are now investigating the incident.
She said: "The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) has instructed the Police Investigations & Review Commissioner to carry out an investigation into police contact with a man who died following an incident in Gordon Street, Glasgow, on Friday 11 November 2016.
"A report on the Commissioner's findings will be submitted to the COPFS in due course"
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