The key facts

  • On November 4 in Tver, a schoolgirl survived a fall from the fourth floor of an abandoned building
  • The Tver Region prosecutor's office is looking into the circumstances of the injury
  • The outlet recalls recent rescues of children in abandoned buildings in St. Petersburg

What happened in Tver

On November 4, in Tver, a group of teenagers broke into an abandoned building. While exploring it, one of the girls fell from the fourth floor to the third. The schoolgirl survived and was hospitalized with multiple injuries. The circumstances of the incident are being established by the Tver Region prosecutor's office, the agency's press service reported (according to Gazeta.Ru).

A series of similar incidents

In its report on the Tver incident, Gazeta.Ru recalls recent similar cases. On October 27, in the Vyborgsky district of St. Petersburg, a 12-year-old girl was rescued from a flooded elevator shaft in an abandoned building on Lesnoy Prospekt: while walking with friends, she failed to notice in the dark that the shaft was filled with water level with the first floor and stepped into it. The schoolgirl was pulled out by a Rosgvardia officer who was inspecting a neighboring room. In addition, it was previously reported that a teenager fell into an elevator shaft from the tenth floor and survived.

What is known and what is not yet

The report contains no data yet on the condition of the hospitalized schoolgirl or the results of the prosecutor's inspection. All that is known is that the inspection is underway and that the girl survived. The Tver case differs from the St. Petersburg ones: there, children drowned or fell into elevator shafts, while here we are talking about a fall from a floor inside the building.