Girl, 2, survives 70ft flats fall

12 April 2012

A two-year-old girl had a miraculous escape when she fell five floors down a block of flats.

The toddler plunged from a seventh floor window on to scaffolding on the second floor, police said.

The child, who has not been named, was taken to hospital where her condition was described as stable, Scotland Yard said.

The drama happened at Arthur Court in Charlotte Despard Avenue, Battersea, south west London, on Saturday evening.

"There was no crime reported, it is being treated as an accident," a Yard spokesman said.

Monday's Sun newspaper said the child, called Alisha, suffered just a broken leg in the 70ft fall.

She was saved from death by landing on the wire mesh floor of a temporary builders' hoist, it reported.

A woman called Carmen told the newspaper: "She was so lucky - she would have been killed if she had fallen just a few centimetres away on to the scaffolding poles or the pavement."

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