A one-year-old girl who fell from the first floor of an apartment building in Herne (North Rhine-Westphalia) died from her serious injuries. The toddler fell five to six meters last Thursday and was critically injured. A rescue helicopter flew the girl to a hospital for intensive medical treatment.

How the one-year-old was able to get to the window late in the evening, whether the child was alone in the apartment or whether there were other people there at the time of the accident is the subject of the investigation, said a spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office.