Jacobs House News Today

A child who died after falling from the upper floor of a flat on Hotspur Street in Kennington, London on Friday was a 12-year-old boy, police have said.

A Norwich community has been left in shock after a child was seriously injured after falling from a flat window in Somerleyton Gardens.

"Beautiful and caring" Aalim Makail, who died on Thursday, will be buried at a local mosque later.

The boy, 5, who sadly died after falling from the window of a housing block in Plaistow, has been locally named as Aalim Makial Jibril.

The boy, 5, who sadly died after falling from the window of a housing block in Plaistow, has been locally named as Aalim Makial Jibril.

The young boy's aunt Maryan Hadafow said his mum had raised concerns several times with the council about the safety of the windows at the flat block

The five-year-old died after falling from a window at flats in Plaistow, Newham. It has now been claimed that windows in the tower block could be opened by pressing just one button

Alam Makial, plunged 150ft after opening a window in his flat in Jacobs House on New City Road in Newham, east London, just after 6am yesterday.

The Met Police and Newham Council are both conducting investigations over Aalim Makail's death.

Metropolitan Police and ambulance crews were called to the tower block in east London on Thursday morning after a boy aged six tragically fell to his death