Aalim Ahmed died instantly and his father found his body
A five-year-old boy died when he fell from his kitchen window on the 15th storey of an east London tower block, an inquest has heard. Aalim Ahmed landed on a railing at the bottom of the residential block in Plaistow.
Members of the public contacted emergency services after residents heard the man's "distressed" cries. Paramedics attended the scene outside Jacobs House on New City Road at 6.04am and police arrived three minutes later.
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