A FIVE-YEAR-OLD girl died after she fell from a ninth-floor unit of Sri Sabah flats in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, today.

Cheras police chief Zam Halim Jamaluddin said the girl fell from the kitchen balcony at about 9.30am.

Her mother and a younger sibling were at home at the time of the incident.

“The girl’s mother did not realise that she had gone to the kitchen when the incident happened,” he said in a statement.

Zam said the case was being investigated under the Child Act 2001. – Bernama, August 26, 2022.