Boy, 1, falls from third-floor window in Amsterdam

A one-year-old boy fell from the third floor of a home on the Amstelveenseweg in Amsterdam-Zuid on Friday morning, police said. According to police, he fell from a window. He was taken to hospital by ambulance.

Emergency services were called at around 09:30. An ambulance, the fire brigade, police and the marechaussee, the military police, came to the scene.

Detectives (the recherche) are investigating how the boy came to fall, a police spokesperson said. No one has been arrested. Part of the Amstelveenseweg was closed off in the direction of the Haarlemmermeercircuit, and police put up a tent in front of the house.

In June two young children fell from windows within a short time, in Chaam in Noord-Brabant and in Rotterdam. The two-year-old boy in Rotterdam did not survive.