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The State - News from June 26, 1986

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A 33-year-old man was killed and a 19-year-old youth survived after jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge in separate incidents, officials said. Andrew Laibun Leung, 33, of San Francisco, died after leaping from the south end of the span. Paul Theodore Hudner, 19, of Kentfield, Calif., was in serious but stable condition at Letterman Army Medical Center after surviving a leap from midspan nearly six hours later, a spokesman said. Hudner fell an estimated 220 feet to the water, a Coast Guard spokesman said. The youth was picked up by a fishing boat crew. Leung had driven onto the bridge from the San Francisco side and stopped a few hundred feet past the toll gates, authorities said. He left his car and jumped over the east railing, falling about 75 feet to his death.

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