More than 100 students preparing for their final exams are being offered counselling after witnessing a young man fall to his death in the atrium of a six-storey building at the University of Auckland.
The first and ground floors of the Business School's Owen G Glenn Building in the central Auckland campus were filled with students studying during the final week of exams when the man, believed to be a student, fell from the sixth floor yesterday morning.
A lab supervisor, who asked not to be named, said there were about 20 students in the immediate vicinity when the incident happened about 11.30am.
"I've been here for five years and [something as shocking as this] has never happened," he said.
People who were gathered at tables, in labs or at the cafe in the atrium were alerted by a loud noise, he said.
