5-year-old falls to death while fighting with 10-yr-old brother

On New Yearrsquos Eve Karan Singh the watchman of a high rise in Parel spent a tormenting night at KEM hospital where doctors were trying to save the lives of his kids fiveyearold Babita and 10yearold Vinod who had been wheeled in with severe head and limb injuries The doctors did not succeed in Babitarsquos case Tragic end The bamboo scaffolding from where Babita 5 slipped and fell on the bicycle stand below at Meghchaya Apartments in Lalbaug on Monday Around 5 pm on December 31 the siblings suffered a fall from a high rise in Lalbaug Meghchaya Apartments where Singh is employed ldquoVinod and Babita were playing on the bamboo poles part of an ongoing construction behind the building when a fight broke out between the two over a locallymade ice pop He tried to snatch the packet from which she was sipping And they fellrdquo said Singh The children were rushed to the surgical intensive care unit at the civicrun KEM hospital where Babita succumbed to her injuries in the wee hours of Tuesday She had sustained severe head injuries Vinod on the other hand was transferred from the surgical ICU to the orthopaedic ward His condition is currently stable One of the security guards at the building told MiD DAY ldquoThese kids were playing behind the building There are no witnesses to the accident We all rushed after hearing about the fall and found them lying there bleedingrdquo He added ldquoKaran lived with his family in the quarters behind the building Due to renovation work happening there he has been living on the buildingrsquos terrace for the past two monthsrdquo According to the buildingrsquos residents the children were left unattended when the tragedy occurred They said that the terrace generally remains locked and the kids could not have fallen from there The height from which the victims fell has not been ascertained Karan Singh who came to the city around 10 years ago from Nepal brought Vinod and Babita to the city a couple of years ago Singh has a third child who is a year old Doctorspeak A paediatric surgeon at KEM hospital said ldquoVinod suffered injuries to the forehead and fractured his left leg Babita who suffered from grievous head injuries skull fracture and severe internal bleeding due to haemorrhage died at 2 am on Tuesdayrdquo Copspeak An official from Kalachowkie police station said ldquoThe girl who fell first succumbed on Tuesday morning at KEM hospital We have filed an accidental death report ADR as the kids fell while playing As per the information received the kids were playing in the back of the building grounds where a bamboo structure stands all the way to the top floor These kids managed to climb on this structure to a height of about 12 feet and fell after losing balancerdquo He added ldquoThe girl fell on her back and the boy on top of her So he bore less injuries Both of them fell on the bicycles parked below We have asked for footage from the CCTV camera installed behind the building to establish detailsrdquo Babitarsquos postmortem was performed during the day and the body was handed over to the family for cremation The postmortem reports were yet to arrive at the time of going to pressu00a0