A YOUNG woman has been killed in a fall tragedy at a Huddersfield block of flats.

Police were called to Lonsbrough Flats on Southgate near Huddersfield town centre shortly before noon yesterday after getting reports that a woman was threatening to jump.

But minutes later she fell to her death from the seventh floor.

It is understood she was declared dead at the scene.

A West Yorkshire Police spokesman said: “The incident is not being treated as suspicious and the coroner has been informed.’’

The area around the flats was sealed off in the immediate aftermath of the tragedy.