Toddler dies after fall from 7th floor
Putrajaya police chief Aidi Sham Mohamed said the child is believed to have fallen at a public housing building in Presint 9, Putrajaya. (Facebook pic)
PETALING JAYA : A two-year-old toddler died this afternoon after a fall from the seventh floor of an apartment building in Putrajaya.
Putrajaya police chief Aidi Sham Mohamed said a doctor at Putrajaya Hospital had reported around 2.24pm that the child was brought to the emergency department covered in blood.
Checks found that the child had already died.
'Preliminary investigations found that the child fell from the seventh floor of a public housing building in Presint 9, Putrajaya,' he said in a brief statement.
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