A baby boy allegedly climbed out of an open window on the seventh story of a council apartment as his mother was purportedly “talking with friends on a balcony,” plunging 60 feet to his death.
Just after 1 o’clock on Saturday, emergency services were sent to the horrific scene in Leeds, West Yorkshire.
The kid was brought to the hospital but passed away shortly after after falling out of the window, according to a statement from West Yorkshire Police.
It’s believed that on Saturday afternoon, his mother had left him unsupervised while she visited with neighbours on the balcony of the ten-story Saville Green apartment building.
A tearful resident said: ‘I can’t believe what I have seen. I feel sick. I will never be able to forget what I have witnessed.’
Another said: ‘It is terrible. His mum was talking to friends on the balcony. She thought he has safe inside.
‘But he has managed to climb up to the open window and has fallen out. It is a horrible, horrible accident. The poor mum.’
Police and forensic officers worked at the Leeds City Council-owned block of flats for three days.
The police statement read: ‘At 1.25pm on Saturday, July 2, police were contacted by the ambulance service who were attending Saville Green in Leeds where a child had fallen from the window of a flat.
‘The one-year-old boy was taken to hospital for emergency treatment but was pronounced dead a short time later.
‘The incident is being treated as a sudden unexpected death in childhood and we ask that people consider the family and respect their privacy at what is clearly a very difficult time for them.’
The police stated that they are still investigating into the boy’s death’s circumstances.