A MAN suffered serious head injuries and fractures to his legs after he fell from the seventh floor of a residential building in Futian District early Wednesday.

A woman claimed the man was photographing her while she was asleep before he fell.

The man, 35, identified only by his last name Yang, was being treated in an ICU in Shenzhen No. 2 People’s Hospital in Futian. “He is still in critical condition as he suffered serious head injuries,” an unnamed doctor in the ICU was quoted as saying by Thursday’s Southern Metropolis Daily.

The woman in her 20s who lives on the seventh floor came down a few minutes after Yang fell and demanded him hand over the pictures he had taken of her sleeping.

“I was aware of some flashes from the window of my bedroom when I was asleep. I got up and went to the window and heard something hit the ground heavily,” said the woman, who declined to give her name.

A preliminary police investigation ruled out a break-in attempt and theft, the Daily said.

“He had only a camera mobile phone with him. It was unlikely that he was trying to break in and steal. But the phone was destroyed when he fell to the ground,” a police official was quoted as saying.

The Daily report said Yang worked at a car repair shop in Shixiadongcun community. He was found lying in a pool of blood in front of Building 253 in community at around 4:30 a.m., the report quoted witnesses as saying.

“I had just returned home from a party when I heard a big bang. I rushed out of my apartment to see what had happened and found a man lying on the ground,” said a male witness who gave only his last name Li.

Li immediately reported the matter to two security guards who took Yang to a clinic in the neighborhood. He was later transferred to No. 2 people’s hospital.

A woman living on the second floor of the building said she was awakened by the noise when Yang hit the ground. “The man had lost a lot of blood from his head. But he seemed to be conscious at first. He soon passed out after saying his legs were broken.”

Police are investigating.

(Wei Jie)