Boy, 5, killed in east London tower block tragedy fell from 15th floor kitchen window, inquest hears
Briefly

Shortly before 6am on May 16, members of the public alerted the emergency services to the sounds of intense distress in the vicinity of Jacobs House, New City Road...find the body of five-year-old Aalim Ahmed impaled on the spikes of the railings outside the ground floor of the building.
Preliminary enquiries suggest that Aalim had fallen from the kitchen window of his home on the 15th floor. A post-mortem found his cause of death to be multiple injuries, due to trauma (fall from height)... His death would have been instantaneous, the court heard.
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