A woman has died after falling from the top floor window of a block of flats yesterday afternoon.

The woman, who has not been named, suffered serious injuries when she fell from the fourth floor of the flats in Annesley Avenue, Colindale.

Paramedics were called to Silk House at about 3.45pm following the fall.

A police spokesman said police were alerted after a resident reported seeing a woman standing on an outside ledge of the building.

Two ambulances, a duty officer and an air ambulance attended the scene, where they found a woman in her thirties suffering from multiple injuries.

It is thought she was still breathing when the emergency services arrived.

But she was airlifted to the Royal London Hospital, in Whitechapel, where she died at about 6pm.

Police are still waiting for formal identification to take place.

The police spokesman said the incident was being treated as suicide.