Boy, 3, survives window fall in Karaganda region

KARAGANDA. KAZINFORM - A 3-year-old boy has plummeted down from a third-storey apartment window in Karaganda city, Kazinform reports. 

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According to reports, the accident happened in the 12th microdistict.

The boy miraculously survived and was hospitalized to the Makazhanov Traumatology and Orthopedics Center with a head injury and broken bones.



According to local police, this is not the first accident involving a little child plopping from a window in Karaganda region.

"15 analogous accidents were registered in Karaganda region. Of 15, 2 children died," the local emergencies department said in a statement, adding that there are many ways to protect children from falling from the height.