Timeline: Child deaths after falling off balconies and flats

A mother and her five-year-old son have died after falling off the window of their flat on the eighth floor of a tower in Jumeirah Lakes Towers (JLT) in Dubai. Here is a timeline of children and teenagers who died in the past one-and-half years after falling off from the balconies/windows of their flats across the UAE: 

4 December 2011

 A three-year-old Syrian boy died after falling out of the window from the 14th floor from an apartment on Jamal Abdul Nasser Street.

27 September 2011

A mother and her five-year-old son have died after separately falling off the balcony of their flat in the Jumeirah Lake Towers, Dubai. 

20 September 2011

A 18-year-old Arab woman survived after falling from the sixth-floor balcony of a hotel in Ajman. She was looking out from her hotel room window when she lost her balance and fell to the service floor, but lost her baby. 

09 September 2011

A teenager died after falling down from the 21st floor balcony of a building in Sharjah while he was talking a picture of the Khalid Lagoon. 

30 January 2011

A 13-year-old Indian girl plunged to death from her 11th floor apartment on Al Falah Street in Abu Dhabi. 

14 November 2010

An African three-year-old toddler fell from a fifth-floor balcony in Sharjah was at home with his sick grandmother before he fell to his death. 

27 June 2010

A seven-year-old Arab girl died after she fell off a balcony in a residential apartment located on King Abdul Aziz Road, Sharjah. 

19 January 2010

A three-year-old Emirati national identified by the police only as A.T. fell to his death from the 13th floor of a high-rise building in Khalidiya, Abu Dhabi. 

- Compiled by Gulf News Archives