Child in critical condition after falling from height at Bishkek shopping mall

A child fell from a height at a shopping mall in Bishkek. Eyewitnesses reported the incident on social media.

According to them, the accident occurred at around 10 p.m. on Tuesday.

«The father ran over and tried to turn him over. Blood began coming from the boy’s ears,» eyewitnesses wrote.

The City Clinical Emergency Hospital told 24.kg news agency that the four-year-old child was brought to the hospital late in the evening in extremely serious condition. He suffered a severe traumatic brain injury and a brain contusion.

The boy is unconscious and remains in the intensive care unit, where he has been placed on a ventilator.

According to doctors, the child fell from an escalator.