A 17-year-old teenager has fallen thirteen floors to his death from the roof of a building in Tsim Sha Tsui on Monday. It was understood that he was practicing Parkour stunts but missed his landing.

The teenager surnamed Yeung was pronounced dead at the scene by the paramedics after police received a report that a person fell from height and lay in a pool of blood at around 3pm.

The preliminary investigation revealed that Yeung, who doing Parkour with two friends, plunge from the roof of the 15-storey Tsim Sha Tsui Mansion to the platform on the 2nd floor.

Parkour, also known as free-running, is a sport where people run, jump and climb from different terrains, such as jumping between buildings.