A tourist has been killed after falling from a famous monument in Rome in front of his horrified daughter.

Morimasa Hibino, a Japanese[1] national, lost his balance and is believed to have fallen roughly 22ft to his death at around 9:50pm local time. The 69-year-old plunged from the Pantheon’s perimeter wall in the Italian capital, according to local media. Police[2] were alerted to the tragedy when a priest who was passing by saw the man lying in a ditch, Italian newspapser la Repubblica reports.





The man plunged from the Pantheon’s perimeter wall in Rome (

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