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In Iran, according to media reports, a high-ranking employee of the Swiss embassy died on Tuesday after falling from a high-rise building.

As the semi-official news agencies Isna and Ilna reported, it is a woman whose age was given as in her early 50s.

As a result, she was number two in the Swiss embassy in terms of her rank.

She fell to the ground from a skyscraper in the north of the Iranian capital, where she lived on the 18th floor.

Further information about the circumstances of the death was initially not reported.

Isna quoted a spokesman for the emergency services, Ilna her own reporter.

Switzerland represents the US diplomatic interests in Iran.

The United States and Iran broke off relations shortly after the Islamic Revolution in 1979.