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The apartment building in Inchicore from which the child, 2, fell this morning. Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland

Boy, 2, dies in hospital after fall from Dublin apartment window

The two-year-old is understood to have fallen from an apartment window on the fourth floor of a building in Inchicore.

Updated, 16:45

A TWO-YEAR-OLD boy has died at a Dublin hospital after falling from an apartment window earlier this morning.

The child fell from a window, understood to be on the fourth floor, at the Tramyard Court apartment complex in Inchicore.

A Garda spokesman said the emergency services were summoned shortly after 10am, and that the child was removed to Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin in a critical condition.

He died from his injuries in the hospital this afternoon.

The circumstances incident remain under investigation and Gardaí have asked witnesses to the incident to contact them.

The Kilmainham Garda station can be contacted at (01) 666 9700. Anyone with information can also call the Garda Confidential line at 1800 666 111, or any Garda station.

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