HAUNTING SCREAMS
Mum shouted ‘please help’ after toddler fell from 8th floor of tower block
A MUM screamed "please help" after her toddler fell from the eighth floor of a block of flats, horrified witnesses say.
Emergency services were scrambled to the busy street in Poplar, East London, at shortly before 7pm on Monday.
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The tot, believed to be just three, is fighting for his life in hospital following the horrific fall.
No arrests have been made.
Shopkeeper Ali Ahmed said: “The toddler was lying on the ground in the road.
"There were people desperately trying to help."
Another witness added: “The mother was at the scene.
'PEOPLE WERE DESPERATELY TRYING TO HELP'
"She was in a terrible way.
"She was waiting for the ambulance, it was terrible to see.
"She was shouting ‘please help’.
"Residents were trying to save the boy.”
Dabir Miah, 48, told The Sun Online: “I heard people screaming so I went there and saw the baby on the pavement.
“Two ladies there had seen how he fell. They said he fell from the 8th floor.
“It was a nightmare. Everybody was shocked.
“Everyone was hurt because the baby was so tiny. It was so sad.
“Even I was crying when I saw the child.
“I kept thinking what if that was my child.”
The family are understood to have only moved to the flat two weeks ago.
Pictures taken yesterday showed an air ambulance on a patch of grass near the block.
Part of East India Dock Road was closed in both directions while police launched an investigation.
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Motorists in the area were advised to use other routes.
Anyone who witnessed or who has dash cam footage of the incident is being asked to contact police quoting reference CAD 6419/27 July.
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