Five-year-old Boy Dies After Falling Off Building’s Third Floor
A five-year old Palestinian boy has died after he fell from the third floor of his Khalidiya street apartment in Abu Dhabi on Friday morning.
Speaking to reporters, the boy’s parents said that initially their
son was “hospitalised in the Shaikh Khalifa Medical City’s Intensive
Care Unit (ICU) after having suffered from severe injuries.”
But a few hours after the incident, the boy died at about 7pm at the hospital.
The child was at his parents’ house in an apartment on the third
floor when he fell from an open, unguarded window and on to the ground,
as Major General Nasser Salem Al Nuaimi, chairman of the Higher
Committee for Child Protection at the Ministry of Interior, explained.
He was in critical condition as a result of the fall.
A comprehensive patrol was sent to the scene of the accident as soon
as the police in Khalidiya received note of it. The patrol examined the
area and early forensics proved that the child had indeed fallen from a
window even though his parents had ensured all other windows were shut
and secure.
The Abu Dhabi Civil Defence urged all parents to pay close attention
to their children and not to neglect any locks that need repair. A Civil
Defence official told newsmen that regulations prevent parents from
having open windows while children are staying at their home. “We force
building owners in Abu Dhabi to install (windows closers) which keep the
windows secured and not allow them to be opened more than 10 cm
maximum”. [GN]
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