The 30-year-old employee of the Australian mission to the United Nations, Julian Simpson, died in New York, falling from the balcony. The city police reported that the diplomat played "on trust" after drinking with friends, writes the television station ABS. According to the publication, Simpson and his friends were on the seventh floor of the house with his wife and friends at Clinton Street in Manhattan.
Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Turnbull called the incident "a tragedy". The head of the country's foreign policy department, Gily Bishop, said she was saddened by the death of her employee. Simpson worked in New York as part of the mission for two years. In August, the Russian Ambassador to the Sudan Mirgayas Shirinsky was found dead. Supposedly he died of high blood pressure.
Original article: Drunken games brought an Australian diplomat to death.