Quarrel over loud music turns deadly in Colombia

Bogota, Sep 3 (IANS/EFE) A man died after being pushed from a third-floor window in a Bogota apartment by a neighbour during an argument about loud music, Colombian police said.

The victim, a financial trader in his late 20s or early 30s, was with a girl in his apartment on the second floor, and the loud music they were playing in the wee hours Monday annoyed the neighbour upstairs, who complained about the noise.

Apparently, the man who was partying, went up to the third floor and began arguing with his 48-year-old neighbour, who attacked him with a knife, and in the ensuing brawl, pushed him out a window, causing his immediate death, the police said.

Other neighbours called the police, who arrived at the building before dawn, where they found the body lying in one of the patios of the condominium and soon afterwards arrested the suspected killer.

--IANS/EFE

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