A three-year-old boy has died after falling from the balcony of a 29th-floor apartment building in New York City, police said.
Officers found the injured toddler lying on scaffolding on the third floor after receiving a call just after 11 a.m. Saturday.
Authorities said the boy was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
“We believe the child escaped through a window, but exactly how it happened is under investigation at the time,” a police spokesman told the AP news agency.
New York City law requires owners of buildings with three or more apartments to install window guards if a child age 10 or younger lives there.
They must also install these protections if the tenant or tenant asks them to do so.
It is not known if any window guards were installed in this particular apartment in the Taino Towers residential area in Harlem.
A police spokesman said the child’s death was being “actively investigated” and officers were speaking to two people in the apartment when the boy fell.
