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The Sakha (Yakutia) Republic Office of the Investigative Committee has initiated an investigation in inflicting grievous bodily harm by negligence under Part 1 of Article 118 of the RF Penal Code after two small children fell from a balcony.

According to investigators, in the evening of 28 April 2017, two cousins, a four-year-old boy and a six-year-old girl, fell from a balcony on the third floor of an apartment building in Lenin Street in the settlement of Verkhnevilyuisk.

A man living in a house next door saw the children falling and called an ambulance. At present, both children are at the surgery unit of a district hospital in stable but grave condition. Their lives are out of danger now. The boy suffered a concussion and a brain injury, while the girl sustained a concussion, a brain injury and a hip joint injury.

Forensic medical examinations have been ordered, other operations are underway to find out all the circumstances surrounding the incident. The investigation is ongoing.