New York Post
A 5-year-old Afghan boy fell to his death from the ninth-floor window of a hotel in the UK, where he and his family recently arrived after being evacuated from their war-torn country, according to reports.
Mohammed Munib Majeedi, whose dad had worked at the British embassy in Kabul, plunged about 70 feet to his death Wednesday at the OYO Sheffield Metropolitan hotel, the Mirror reported.
His horrified mother, Shekiba, yelled, “My boy!” and “Save my son, please!” after the tragic incident.
The tragic child apparently slipped out the window — which was only supposed to be able to open about 2 inches — at about 2:30 p.m. according to the outlet.
Mohammed and his parents, who arrived in Britain in recent weeks, were among a group of Afghan refugees who were housed at the hotel after spending time in quarantine, the Guardian reported.
Jawed Jamal Akhtar, 35, an Afghan interpreter who also was staying at the hotel with his wife and six kids, told the Mirror that he went to the hospital with the boy and his mother, “but you could see Mohammed was dead.”
He said the dead boy’s dad, Omar, arrived crying at the hospital.
“The last time I saw the mother she was not good,” Akhtar said.
“After the boy fell his mother was shouting, ‘Save my son, please!’” he added. “Just the day before, Mohammed was playing with my children at the front of the hotel — they were playing cops and robbers.”
Akhtar said he has checked that the windows in his room only open a couple of inches.
“Last night my children would not go to bed, they were really scared,” he said.
Hotel guests have previously pointed out that the win…
