Agencies
Friday July 13, 2007
Guardian Unlimited

A 10-month-old girl has survived an eight-storey plunge from a Shanghai tower block after her drunk father apparently threw her out of a window.
The incident occurred during a row between the girl’s father, 26-year-old security guard Yu Dongrui, and his mother-in-law, the Shanghai Daily reported today.

The child suffered only a broken leg because her fall was slowed by tree branches and she landed on soft soil in a flowerbed, the newspaper said.

The father told a Shanghai TV station that the fall was an accident and that his daughter had slipped from his arms while playing.
Mr Yu is estranged from his wife, who had asked for a divorce earlier this year and moved to another city, according to the Shanghai Daily.

It reported that his mother-in-law had placed the baby girl in his arms, saying she would no longer take care of the child and that he was no longer welcome in her home.

“Yu took sleeping pills in the morning and started drinking in the afternoon,” a police officer, Zong Yuan, told the paper. “The argument with his mother-in-law started when she asked him to leave her house.”

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