Neighbours have told how a ‘numb’ mother watched on as paramedics desperately tried to resuscitate her two-year-old son, who died after falling from a third-floor window
Paramedics desperately tried to save a toddler who fell from a window and later died as his “numb” mum looked on, locals say.
Police are investigating after a two-year-old boy tragically lost his life in Forest Hill, southeast London. Emergency services were called to Wynell Road at 12.17pm on Sunday to reports that a youngster had fallen from a height. The boy was taken to hospital but died from his injuries. The death is being treated as “unexpected” and no arrests have been made, the Met Police said.
Neighbours said today they heard the tot fell from a third-floor window. Witnesses described seeing a woman standing in complete shock as paramedics desperately tried to revive the boy, thought to be her son.
One local mother, who has lived in the area for around 12 years, said the tragedy was “100 per cent” the worst thing that’s happened there in her time.
The woman said her son had spoken to a boy living in a flat downstairs in the same house the deceased lived in – which is thought to hold around four flats in total – who told him the child had fell from a window. “He said the baby fell out the window,” she said. “It’s a shared house. I think there’s four or five flats in there. He was on the top floor. Theirs was the top window.
“We didn’t know [the boy]. [My son] asked the boy living downstairs what happened and he said a boy had fallen out of the window. It’s terrible, really sad. You just don’t know what to do in this situation.
“We were going to get some flowers but I don’t know if the mum would want that. A two-year-old… I just can’t fathom it. It’s so sad, it broke my heard. When I heard I sobbed my eyes out. When they brought him out we saw them pumping his chest. The police wouldn’t tell us what was going on.
“We’ve been here about 12 years,” the mum continued. “There’s a lot of kids playing but this is the worst thing that has happened since we’ve lived here – a hundred per cent.”
Another man said he couldn’t believe how many police cars were on the scene, saying: “There was a lot of police and ambulances – more police than ambulances. That’s when we thought something had gone wrong. There was a helicopter.
“[The boy] must’ve just fell from one of the windows of the houses. They were doing chest compressions with the kid, as they were putting him in the ambulance.
“I couldn’t believe how many police where was. There must’ve been about 15 police cars, two vans, two motorbike ambulances, an ambulance, an incident van and the helicopter.
“She [the mum] was just standing there… She must’ve been in shock. She was just standing there in shock.”