Man dies in bridge jump

A MAN jumped to his death from the Forth Road Bridge yesterday.

Kinghorn Coastguard team and a South Queensferry lifeboat attended the scene just before 6.30pm, but the man - who jumped from the Fife side of the bridge - did not land in the water.

A spokesman for Fife Police said: "He landed on hard ground underneath the bridge on the North Queensferry side, next to Ferry Road."

There were no road closures as a result of the incident.

A spokesman for the Scottish Ambulance Service confirmed that an ambulance attended the scene but did not take the man to hospital as he was already dead.