A British toddler who fell from a window seven stories up landed on wire mesh on a scaffold, surviving with bruises and a possible broken leg.

The 2-year-old, identified only as Alisha, lives with her parents and older sister in an apartment block in the London neighborhood of Battersea. She plunged form the window Saturday night, The Daily Mail reported.

The girl’s fall was broken by the scaffold about 100 feet below the window. She also missed metal poles.

"I'm still in shock,” Sharon Burton, another resident of the building, said. “I don't know how she fell that far and survived. It's a miracle."

Burton said she wrapped the little girl in a blanket to keep her warm and tried to keep her awake.

“It was such a relief when the paramedics arrived,” she said.  // Copyright 2007 by United Press International



Publication date: 02 October 2007   

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