Six-Year-Old Pushed from 10th-Floor of London ’s Tate Modern Gallery

LONDON (AP) — A 6-year-old boy who was thrown from a 10th-floor viewing gallery at London's Tate Modern gallery is no longer in a life-threatening condition, police said Monday. A 17-year-old boy is being held on suspicion of attempted murder over the incident, which happened Sunday afternoon while the gallery was packed with visitors. The Metropolitan Police force said the younger boy is in a critical but stable condition in a London hospital. He fell from the open-air viewing platform to a fifth-floor roof. Nancy Barnfield was at the gallery with her family when she heard a "loud bang," and then saw a woman screaming "where's my son, where's my son?" She said a man on the platform was restrained by other visitors until police arrived. Barnfield said he "just stood there and was quite calm." Police say they don't believe the suspect and victim knew each other. The child was treated at the scene before being flown to hospital by London's air ambulance. Emergency crews attending a scene at the Tate Modern art gallery, London, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019. London police say a teenager was arrested after a child "fell from height" at the Tate Modern art gallery. The Metropolitan Police Service said on Twitter that the child was taken to a hospital in an air ambulance, adding "We await an update on his condition." (Yui Mok/PA via AP) Tate Modern, Britain's leading gallery of modern art, sits on the south bank of the River Thames and wa...
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