Czech boy survives fall from 19th floor
A 15-year-old Czech boy on Friday survived a fall from the 19th floor of a block of flats in Prague.
PRAGUE (AFP) - A 15-year-old Czech boy on Friday survived a fall from the 19th floor of a block of flats in Prague, police, rescuers and media said.
Czech media said the boy was lucky his fall was broken by the roof over the building s entrance.
"We were called following the fall of a person most probably from the 19th floor," Prague police spokeswoman Eva Kropacova told AFP.
Prague s emergency service said the boy had been put in an artificial coma.
"The 15-year-old youngster was... taken to hospital with serious head and pelvis injuries," it tweeted.
Kropacova said the police were looking into the cause of the accident which occurred in a sprawling housing estate on Prague s southern outskirts.
