Horror as woman falls to her death from the balcony of an apartment building after wild Airbnb party goes horribly wrong

A woman has fallen to her death from a balcony during an Airbnb apartment party in  New Zealand.

The upmarket Auckland Harbour Suites complex erupted in chaotic screaming about 3.30am on Sunday after the woman plummeted from a ninth-storey balcony before landing on an awning above ground-level shops.  

The woman's body lay motionless in a pool of blood, where traumatised witnesses said it lay until it was removed by emergency services at 7.30am. 

Witnesses said a shirtless man was seen running from six or seven police at the apartment block shortly after the woman fell, however NZ Police told news website Stuff that her death is not being treated as suspicious. 

One witness, who has not been named, told Stuff that he heard an argument about 3.30am and heard a woman screaming.

He then saw a man and a woman on the balcony above while the dead woman lay on the awning.

The 30-storey Auckland Harbour Suites in downtown Auckland where the fall occurred

Chaotic screaming was heard at the Auckland Harbour Suites at 3.30am on Sunday as a woman fell to her death from the ninth floor

Student Brad Morrow who lives on the first floor of the apartment block said he and his partner had been woken by screaming - with the sound being horribly different from ordinary drunken party shouting.

 'We had a look out the window, me and my partner both woke up to it, and just out to the right of our window unfortunately she was laying there in a pool of blood,' he told TVNZ. 

 'Quite traumatic.'

Mr Morrow said his partner had seen the woman carrying alcohol into the complex earlier in the evening with her friends. 

Emergency services rushed to the scene and were there within 10 minutes, Mr Morrow said, but were tragically unable to help the woman.

They covered her body with a blanket about 4.30am prior to its removal.

A group of anguished young people gathered around the apartment's entrance with one woman heard shouting at a man that he had 'no right to take my sister's life'. 

Airbnb said the company is devastated by the incident.

 'We are shocked and saddened by this tragic incident and we are fully committed to supporting police in their investigations,' said Derek Nolan, Airbnb's head of public policy for New Zealand and Australia.

Mr Nolan told Stuff that community safety is at the 'very centre of everything we do'.   

NZ Police detectives remained on the scene for much of Sunday and will refer the matter to the coroner.

The woman's identity has not been released.