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Toddler killed in tower block fall

A toddler has died after plunging more than 30ft from a flat window, police said.

The 23-month-old boy is believed to have fallen from the fourth floor at a tower block in Tottenham, north London, on Friday.

He died from his injuries the next day.

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: "A post-mortem established cause of death as massive head injuries."

The child lived in a block of flats known as Croydon, on the Broadwater Farm Estate in Gloucester Road, police said.

A spokesman added: "The 23-month-old boy fell approx 10 metres (33ft).

"He was taken by London Ambulance Service to Royal London Hospital with a fractured skull and was later transferred to Great Ormond Street Hospital, where he subsequently died."

Detectives based in Stratford were investigating, he added.

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