NEW YORK — A 3-year-old boy has died after falling from a 29th ground balcony of a New York Metropolis house constructing on Saturday morning, police stated.

Officers discovered the injured toddler mendacity on a third ground scaffolding after receiving a 911 name at 11:09 a.m. The boy was taken to a close-by hospital the place he was pronounced useless.

“We imagine the kid exited via a window, however precisely how that occurred is beneath investigation on the time,” a police spokesperson advised The Related Press. The house is situated within the Taino Towers residential complicated in Harlem.

New York Metropolis legislation requires house owners of buildings with three or extra flats to put in window guards if a baby age 10 years or youthful lives there or if a tenant or occupant requests them. It is unclear whether or not window guards had been put in on this explicit house.

The spokesperson stated the kid’s loss of life is beneath “energetic investigation” and police are talking with two people who had been contained in the house when the boy fell.