6 year old boy thrown from 10th floor of Tate Modern
 

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A six-year-old boy was thrown five floors from the 10th floor of the Tate Modern art gallery in central London, police said.

He landed on a fifth floor roof and was taken to hospital by air ambulance after he fell at about 14:45 BST on Sunday.

The boy's condition is described as critical.

A 17-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, the Met Police said.

They said the six-year-old was thrown from a viewing platform.

"We treated a person at the scene and took them to hospital as a priority," a London Ambulance Service (LAS) spokesman said.

A police spokesman said there was "nothing to suggest [the suspect] is known to the victim".

The teenager had remained on the platform after the boy fell, police said.

Visitors were initially locked inside the gallery at Bankside on the South Bank.

'Where's my son?'

Admin worker Nancy Barnfield, 47, of Rochdale, was at the 10th floor viewing gallery with a friend and their children when her friend heard a "loud bang".

Ms Barnfield said she turned around and saw a woman screaming: "Where's my son, where's my son?"

Members of the public quickly gathered around a man who was nearby, she said.

Ms Barnfield said: "We did not notice the mum before, we noticed her after because she was hysterical by then."

She said the person who was restrained by members of the public before the police arrived "just stood there and was quite calm".

Olga Malchevska, who was also on the 10th floor, said she heard a scream and then headed to the exit with her child.

"Some people started panicking. We got to the packed lift. People there were saying that one boy threw another one from the balcony. We were all shocked."

Stuart Haggas said he saw emergency crews moving along the roof between the gallery's Turbine Hall and its recent extension.

"They were carrying a stretcher with someone on it, plus a second stretcher was waiting by the door," he said.

BBC correspondent Jonny Dymond, who was also there, said visitors were "funnelled towards the main Turbine Hall and the exits were all closed".

"There were quite a lot of families with children, and security guards told us we couldn't leave," he said.

"There were at least two fire engines, 10 police cars and an incident control unit. Parts of the exterior of the building were taped off."

The Tate Modern opened in the disused power station on the River Thames in 2000.

It was the UK's most popular tourist attraction in 2018 with 5.9 million visitors, according to the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions.

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What the ****

shocking

...completely horrendous...the little guy’s condition is critical, I can’t imagine what the family is going through right now...

That’s made me feel ill. Evil.

Unbelievable. Jesus Christ!

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Every day I lose more faith in humanity

D:

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Here's hoping for a speedy recovery.

Jesus Christ. I’ve been there recently and that drop is huge, in fact I’m amazed he’s even still alive.
What kind of evil person does that to a small child...?

I think something similar happened fairly recently in America, I think at a shopping mall.

On the news a woman who was there said the guy acted weird and followed her and her children for a while before it happened

Sickening. I hope the boy recovers fast and well, 5 floors is very high, it's a miracle he's alive <3

Tbh I'm amazed that the child is still alive.

Hopefully the child pulls through and that the teenager actually gets punished.

Absolutely horrific, I hope the child recovers. His family must be besides themselves.

The person who threw him over sounds either very mentally ill or plain evil as he stood by calmly afterwards.

Scary world

He landed on the Side building
not the pavement.

...I’ve just read that he’s still critical but stable...

poor little chap, hope he pulls through

****ing hell..hope he recovers, but you would think that height would have killed him instantly really :o

Poor kid :( what a totally bizarre situation.

Its sad the depth some humans can sink to . Bless this little man ,I hope he recovers and without permanent damage .

He is no longer critical

The teen suspect arrested after a six-year-old boy was thrown from the Tate Modern 10th floor blamed social services for his alleged actions, a witness has claimed...


https://uk.news.yahoo.com/teenager-a...101025939.html

The report that the boy was ripped from his mothers arms are false I would say?

A bizarre and unsettling attack. I'm glad the boy seems to be stable and I hope he doesn't have any permanent injuries as a result of this.

I assume there was no real motive for the attack if the attacker wasn't known to the victim or his mother and given how calm he was reported to be, I'd assume that this is a case of a psychopath of some sort lashing out. I'll be interested to know more and I hope that justice is swift.

Keeping my fingers crossed for the lad, but that's going to be a hell of a thing to recover from physically and mentally

The 6 year old boy in Hospital
is a French Tourist

Ch4HDnews just reported it.

...I hope with all of my heart that he’s going to be okay...

That’s kinda insane that he’s survived it? Hopefully he has a speedy recovery

It does make me think it's some sort of Britain first/Brexit thing then. An extremist heard an accent they didn't like and acted out against them?

Jesus, that's horrific. It's a miracle he's alive.

Hope he makes a speedy recovery.

in London in the summer? that's a bit of a stretch, the city is full of tourists

No way, he was following an English family before that, I would imagine he had voices in his head or something :shrug: its tragic for them both

He was saying it’s social services fault.

Also random people get pushed in front of tube trains by strangers.

I think this was more likely to be a very sick and/or evil individual but I suppose we will find out reasons in the fullness of time.

Whatever the reason, its a horrifically awful situation and my thoughts are with the family

The teenager is a mental patient who slipped away from his minders/carers

this honestly gagged me. What possesses someone to attack an innocent stranger? Then you take into account that the poor boy is 6 years old and he's going to have to deal with this for the rest of his life, if he's even lucky enough to make a full recovery.

This is correct it has been online this morning,he blamed social services,Why cant people take responsibility for their own heinous actions instead of trying to blame other people:shrug: I hope he gets a suitable punishment.perhaps he needed help and never got it.

Yes could be,
sadly.

The 17 year old can not be named