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Child survives 5-storey fall

A small child miraculously survived a 17-metre fall from an apartment building in Richmond, Wednesday.

The girl, believed to be under the age of six, fell from the seventh floor of the Panorama Place building onto a gravel canopy five storeys below.

A family living on the second floor heard the impact and found her lying on the gravel.

"The girl said she needed a Band-Aid, and I said it's OK, you will get a Band-Aid,” Stepan Larichev told CTV. Larichev comforted the girl as his mother called 911.

Emergency crews arrived at 3 p.m. and took the child to hospital. Her injuries are believed to be non-life-threatening.

It's unclear how the fall happened. A paper airplane was on the gravel canopy near where the girl fell.

He said he didn't see the girl's parents at all during the incident, which is under investigation. 

– with files from CTV Vancouver



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