A six-year-old boy has died after falling more than 150ft from a tower block in east London.
The boy fell from a window on the 15th floor of Jacobs House on New City Road this morning.
Police said they were called to reports of a child falling from height shortly before 6am.
A neighbour told the Evening Standard: “I spoke to the mum a few weeks ago and I saw her with her son in the lift with her boy, he was lovely. Today she could barely speak.”
A mother-of-two, 28, told the paper: “We are in utter shock.
A resident said ‘the boy was up early and then fell from the window’.
Scotland Yard said in a statement: “We were called at 5.58am on Thursday, May 16 to reports of a child having fallen from height at New City Road, E13.
