A 4-year-old child died after falling from a building in Budanig, Sharjah, Emarat Al Youm reported

The child fell from the twentieth floor of a building in the Al Qasimia district after climbing through the window of his room without anyone in his family noticing.

Sharjah Police Commander Major General Saif Al Zari Alshamsi said the police operations centre received a report at 4pm on Tuesday that a child fell from the window of an apartment on the 20th floor of a building occupied by an Asian family and died instantly due to the fall from a higher floor.

He told the local newspaper that the police immediately rushed to the scene of the accident because the child was found dead lying on his stomach. At the same time, parts of his body were scattered on the ground as a result of the fall; the accident was investigated and the consequences were removed from the scene. The body of the deceased child was taken away.

Al Shamsi also pointed out that when asked, his mother told him that her son had fallen out of the apartment window. His mother was in the kitchen during the incident. Therefore, a complaint was filed for gross negligence on the part of the family because they did not look after their child and placed the cot in the wrong place and in the wrong room.