Young boy dies in fall ‘from eighth floor’ of tower block

One resident says it ‘was a very distressing scene’ as paramedics worked to save the 13-year-old boy

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A young boy has died after falling from the eighth floor of a block of flats near Wembley Stadium.

Metropolitan Police were called to Olympic Way, Wembley, at 6.45am on Monday to reports of a boy who had fallen from a height at the residential building.

A police spokesperson said in a statement: "Officers and London Ambulance Service attended. Despite the best efforts of paramedics, a 13-year-old boy died at the scene.

“The death is currently being treated as unexplained. No arrests have been made and enquiries continue.”

According to the Evening Standard, the boy’s body was discovered by one of the residents, on the balcony of her flat on the first floor.

The chairman of the local residents’ association, Haider Narallah, told the newspaper he heard someone shouting and “saw a boy lying on the first floor” when he looked out of his balcony.

“It was clear he had fallen. He fell from the eighth floor on to a balcony on the first. The resident there found him,” he was quoted as saying, adding the paramedics worked as hard as they could to save him.

“It was a very distressing scene,” said Mr Narallah. “The family are lovely. The mother is such a nice person. She is with the police now. She is devastated.”