New Zealand / Regional

Elderly man dies at building site

13:55 pm on 19 March 2013

A 70-year-old man has fallen to his death at a building site in a Coromandel town.

Emergency services were called to Opal Place in the small town of Pauanui at about 7.45am on Tuesday.

Police say the man had been working on the building.

The Department of Labour and police are investigating.