Children in Hesse fell out of windows twice. A five-year-old boy died in Gießen. The cases will now be examined in more detail.
Gießen/Wiesbaden (dpa/lhe) - In Gießen as well as in Wiesbaden, children have fallen out of the windows of apartment buildings in the past few days. A five-year-old boy died in Gießen after falling from the third floor, the police said on Monday. The child fell out of a window into the asphalt courtyard on Sunday evening. The boy was taken to hospital with serious injuries, where he died on Monday afternoon.
According to a police spokesman, the mother was in the apartment with another one-year-old child at the time of the incident. The woman suffered shock and was also taken to a hospital. Further details were not initially known. The police are now investigating the exact circumstances of the fall. According to the police, it is a residential building with a higher ground floor. According to a spokesman, the boy fell about ten meters.
A similar incident happened in Wiesbaden on Friday. A two-year-old girl was seriously injured after falling from a height of about eight meters. The child climbed onto a window sill in his room on the second floor of an apartment building, the police said. It then fell through the open window onto a lawn in front of the house. The girl is being treated in a hospital and her life is not in danger. How exactly the accident could have happened is now being determined, the police said.
