A high-ranking Russian defence official has died after falling from a window of a building in St Petersburg. The Russian Investigative Committee confirmed Marina Yankina's death and is leading the probe into her fatal fall.
Marina Yankina, 58, was discovered by a passerby at the entrance of a house on Zamshina Street in St Petersburg. She is believed to have fallen 160ft to her death.
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