A man has died after falling from the upper floor of the Stock Exchange on Tuesday (August 15).

The Metropolitan Police was called to Paternoster Square just before 10am.

The man was pronounced dead at the scene by the London Ambulance Service at 10.10am, the Mirror Online reports.

Shocked LSE workers struggled to comprehend what had happened, one broker said: ''It's horrifying, that's all I can say.''

A fellow broker explained: ''I came in this morning and there was a screen up in the reception lobby area and ambulances and police.

"There was an internal memo saying there had been an incident."

The man was pronounced dead at the scene at 10.10am

A City of London Police spokesman said: ''We were called to the London Stock Exchange in Paternoster Square on Tuesday, 15 August at 9.58am to a report of a man who had fallen from an upper floor in the building to the ground.

"London Ambulance Service attended and the man was pronounced dead at 10.10am.

"The City of London Police is currently investigating the circumstances around the death and the incident is being treated as non-suspicious.

"We are now working to inform the man's next of kin."

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