Newport horror as toddler falls from bedroom window on top floor of block of flats

A one-year-old was rushed to after fallingof a block of flats after being left alone for "less than five minutes".

Emergency services, including Wales Air Ambulance, the Welsh Ambulance Service and police were called to the scene of the "medical emergency" in Newport on Tuesday and confirmed a 17-month-old girl was hospitalised. In an update, described the little one's condition as "not life-threatening or life-changing" fallowing the fall from the bedroom of the second floor of the building. The force confirmed in a statement the toddler is currently still in hospital for "treatment".

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The mother of the child defended herself on social media after the accident. insisting the child was left alone for "less than five minutes" as she went into the kitchen, reported.

A spokesman for Gwent Police said: "We received a report of a medical emergency at Welland Crescent, Newport, at around 12.45pm on Tuesday, May 20.

"Officers attended along with paramedics from the Welsh Ambulance Service and Welsh Air Ambulance.

"A 17-month-old girl was taken to hospital for treatment. Her injuries are not thought to be life-threatening or life-changing."

A neighbour living on the ground floor reported they saw the girl fall and is believed to be the person who raised the alarm.

The accident happened days after paramedics desperately tried to save a toddler as his "numb" mum looked on. Police are investigating after the in Forest Hill, southeast.

Emergency services were called to Wynell Road at 12.17pm on Sunday to reports that a youngster had fallen from a height. The boy was taken to but died from his injuries.

The death is being treated as "unexpected" and no arrests have been made, the said.

Neighbours said they heard the tot fell from a third-floor window. Witnesses described seeing a woman standing in complete shock as paramedics desperately tried to revive the boy, thought to be her son.

A mother said her son had spoken to a boy living in a flat in the same house the little boy lived in who told him the child had fell from a window. She said: "He said the baby fell out the window. It’s a shared house. I think there’s four or five flats in there. He was on the top floor. Theirs was the top window.

“We didn’t know [the boy]. [My son] asked the boy living downstairs what happened and he said a boy had fallen out of the window. It’s terrible, really sad. You just don’t know what to do in this situation.