A two-year-old girl has died after she was struck by falling brickwork while being held in her grandmother’s arms.
Greta Greene was hit in the head by a chunk of masonry which fell from an eighth-storey window ledge in New York on Sunday.
She was being held by her grandmother Susan Frierson who was sitting on a bench beside the building.
Tsvi Kohl, 49, who lives nearby, told the New York Post: "Me and three other ladies tried to give [the child] CPR and see if she had a pulse and was breathing.
"She was breathing but barely . . . There was no movement, no function, no cry. Just a beautiful baby girl."
Greta, the only child of Brooklyn couple Jason and Stacy Greene, died today following unsuccessful surgery.
Nelson Amaya, 38, the doorman of a nearby building, said: "I saw the grandma stagger. She was holding the baby in her arms."
Frierson, 60, suffered minor injuries after being hit in the wrist and ankle.
The brick fell from a nursing home in the city's Manhattan district. The New York Times reported that building officials have issued an "administrative code violation" for failure to safely maintain the building.
