NSW: Child's window plunge accidental, police say

AAP General News (Australia)
02-14-2009
NSW: Child's window plunge accidental, police say

Police say the girl who plunged eight metres from a third-floor unit block in Sydney's
south this afternoon .. fell accidentally.

The five-year-old girl is in hospital with critical head injuries after falling from
the window of a unit in Curtis Street at Caringbah just before two this afternoon.

The girl's believed to have fallen through the flyscreen covering the window.

She was unconscious when paramedics arrived and it's feared she may also have spinal injuries.

It's the fourth time in as many months a child in Sydney has been seriously injured
after falling through a window .. following accidents in Liverpool .. Bankstown and Berowra.

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