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| Toddler survives tower block fall | Toddler survives tower block fall |
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| A two-year-old girl is recovering in hospital after falling from the seventh floor of a block of flats. | A two-year-old girl is recovering in hospital after falling from the seventh floor of a block of flats. |
| Alisha Mbala suffered just a broken leg in the 100ft (about 30.5m) plunge from a flat window at Arthur Court in Battersea, south-west London. | |
| Police said she was in a stable condition in hospital following the accident on Saturday night. | Police said she was in a stable condition in hospital following the accident on Saturday night. |
| It is thought she survived by landing on the wire mesh floor of a temporary builders' hoist. | It is thought she survived by landing on the wire mesh floor of a temporary builders' hoist. |
| 'Mother screaming' | |
| A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said the accident was not being treated as suspicious. | A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said the accident was not being treated as suspicious. |
| The emergency services were called out at about 2140 BST. | |
| Neighbour Claire McIlroy heard the girl's mother screaming as she realised what had happened, and then saw the mother run out of the building screaming for help. | |
| George Whale, a building manager in charge of the work taking place on the block, said he was amazed that the girl managed to survive falling from such a height. | |
| It's a miracle that she survived George Whale, building manager | |
| He said: "She's come out of the window and gone straight into the cradle, which is a miracle on its own. | |
| "It's a miracle anyway that she survived. We just can't believe anybody falling from that distance has not hit the scaffold." | |
| The girl was taken inside a nearby flat by a resident and ambulance crews treated her for head and leg injuries before taking her to hospital. | |
| A spokesman for Wandsworth Council, which owns Arthur Court, said all the windows on the 13-storey block were fitted with restrictors which allow them to be opened by 10cm, but that it was possible to open them further. | A spokesman for Wandsworth Council, which owns Arthur Court, said all the windows on the 13-storey block were fitted with restrictors which allow them to be opened by 10cm, but that it was possible to open them further. |
| The flat from which the girl fell is privately owned, he said. |