By Euro Weekly News Media • Published: 17 May 2014 • 9:09
A 12-year-old girl has died after falling from the roof of her apartment building in Barcelona.
The police have confirmed that it was an accident and there was no foul play.
The banister broke as she leant on it and she fell the five floors to the interior patio below.
The girl had gone up to the roof with her father to help him hang the laundry and as she gripped the banister leading to the roof it gave way said her uncle, Abdel Kadil.
He went on to state that her father tried to save her but was not close enough to grab her.
He has condemned the community of the block for not keeping up with the maintenance of the banister which, in his opinion, should have been replaced some time ago.
“Her death has had a great impact on the neighbourhood” commented Malik, a neighbour whose child went to school with the dead girl.
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