The youngster plunged from Jacobs House on New City Road in Newham just after 6am. Scotland Yard is treating the death as 'unexpected' but no arrests have been made.
The boy plunged from Jacobs House, New City Road, in Newham, just after 6amA six-year-old boy has died today after falling more than 150ft from a high-rise tower block in London .
People who live in the 1960s 16-storey block, where flats can cost up to £200,000, have been left in 'utter shock' by the youngster's death and want answers about how it had happened.The map above shows the location of Jacobs House where the little boy was pronounced dead at the scene Council staff are currently at the block of flats reassuring residents and is tries to piece together what happened.
'The death is being treated as unexpected and enquiries are underway to establish the full circumstances.'
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