A two-year-old boy has been hospitalised after falling from a third-floor window while his mother was said to be breastfeeding his sibling.
The accident happened today in the Cristo neighbourhood of Alessandria, in northern Italy, local media reported.
Initial investigations by local police revealed that the boy, who has not yet been named, leaned out of the window while trying to get a toy that had fallen from the windowsill.
The mother, who was reportedly distracted by breastfeeding her other son, did not notice the fall.
It was the two-year-old grandmother who noticed the boy tumble, and rushed to help him before asking a passer-by for assistance.
The child was rushed to an intensive care unit at the pediatric emergency room in Alessandria from the family’s home on Via Gandolfini, on a public housing estate in the south of the city.
Local media reported that he will undergo a CT scan to assess the extent of his injuries.
Police are said to still be at the home, investigating the incident.
The child was rushed to an intensive care unit at the pediatric emergency room in Alessandria from the family’s home on Via Gandolfini (pictured)
