3-year-old child thrown down from 12th floor in Minsk

A 3-year-old child has died in Frunzenski District. Inhabitants of a high-rise apartment building in Frunzenski District noticed the child on the entrance roof on the evening of January 28. The police and rescuers headed there. The rescuers evacuated the boy and handed him over to medics. The child died on the way to hospital.

It turned out that the child could be thrown down from the 12th floor. The boy’s mother, 34, was detained. She is suspected of a heinous crime. She was drunk. A criminal case has been started.

The tragedy occurred on Adzintsou Street, 31, tut.by reports. The woman was going to commit suicide and threw her child down, neighbours say. But she changed her mind and did not jump down. She is being interrogated now.

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