Baby survives seven-storey fall

Madrid - An 18-month-old Spanish baby fell from a seventh-floor apartment in the south-eastern city of Murcia yesterday and came…

Madrid - An 18-month-old Spanish baby fell from a seventh-floor apartment in the south-eastern city of Murcia yesterday and came away virtually unscathed.

The baby's fall was partly broken by laundry lines and glass panes covering the ground floor of the building. "The baby suffered a broken tooth, contusion on its upper lip and bruises on its right cheek," a paediatrician at a local hospital said.

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