A 39-year-old man has been charged with assault after another man died following an alleged altercation in a Goulburn hotel room.

About 5.50pm on Friday, emergency services were called to a hotel on Bradley Street following reports that two men had been involved in an altercation.

One of the men, aged 56, was found unresponsive a short time later.

Police began CPR before paramedics took over, but the man died at the scene.

Police established a crime scene and began investigating the circumstances of his death.

A 39-year-old man was arrested and taken to Goulburn Police Station before being taken to hospital for treatment of a head laceration.

He was subsequently returned to the police station and charged with common assault.

The man has been granted conditional bail.

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