Report: NZ boy falls 16 floors, through carpark roof, suffers minor injuries
By APSunday, July 25, 2010
Report: NZ boy survives 16-story fall
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A 15-year-old New Zealand boy has survived a 16-story plunge from the balcony of his family’s apartment onto a concrete floor.
New Zealand media reported Monday that the boy was playing on the balcony before he fell, dropping through the roof of a carpark onto the concrete.
He was in stable condition at Auckland’s Middlemore Hospital with a broken wrist, a broken rib, gashed leg and internal injuries, the New Zealand Herald reported.
The newspaper said the carpark roof — made of sheet iron and filled with insulation — may have broken his fall.
“God must have been with him. He’s got an angel looking after him, that’s for sure,” housekeeper Kaa Wehi, who was working in the building at the time, told the newspaper.
