A TEENAGE boy has died after falling from a 19-storey tower block.
The 14-year-old plunged from the flats in Bow, East London, shortly after 9pm on Saturday.
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A 14-year-old boy died after falling from an East London tower block
Police and paramedics rushed to Fern Street to treat the boy but sadly he was pronounced dead.
His death is not thought to be suspicious, with officers instead treating it as unexplained.
It is understood he fell from 19-storey Sleaford House, MyLondon reports.
A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police said: "Police were called at 9.20pm on Saturday, March 19, to Fern Street E3 after reports of a person having fallen from height from a residential block.
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"Officers responded with LAS.
"A 14-year-old boy was found unresponsive; he was pronounced dead at the scene.
"His next of kin are aware. The death is being treated as unexplained but is not thought to be suspicious."
A London Ambulance Service spokesperson added: "We were called at 9.13pm on Saturday (19 March) to reports of a teenager falling from height in Fern Street, Bow.
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"We sent two ambulance crews, a paramedic in a fast response car and an incident response car to the scene.
"We also dispatched an advanced trauma team from London’s Air Ambulance, which consisted of a doctor and a paramedic in a car."