Tate Modern: Teenager charged after six-year-old boy injured
A teenager has been charged with attempted murder after a six-year-old boy was allegedly thrown from the 10th floor of the Tate Modern art gallery.
The child, who was found on a fifth-floor roof after he fell from the Tate's viewing platform on Sunday, is in a critical but stable condition.A 17-year-old boy is due to appear at Bromley Youth Court on Tuesday, the Metropolitan Police said.Emergency services were called to the gallery, based in Bankside near London Bridge Station, at about 14:40 BST on Sunday.
"We treated a person at the scene and took them to hospital," a London Ambulance Service spokesman said. Det Ch Insp Massey said on Monday:"It would have been incredibly distressing to watch, and it may be that you left Tate Modern very quickly after.The force said the child was"no longer in a life-threatening situation" but his family was waiting for more news about his condition.The Tate Modern opened in the disused power station on the River Thames in 2000, while the extension with the viewing platform was opened in 2016.
It was the UK's most popular tourist attraction in 2018 with 5.9 million visitors, according to the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions.
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