Council ‘were warned about safety of windows in high rise where 18-month-old girl plunged to her death

THE council were alerted to window safety issues at a tower block where a baby girl plummeted 80ft to her death on Monday, it is alleged.

After the tragedy locals expressed their anger at the lack of adequate safety catches - claiming that on hot days people could override them and push windows fully open.

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It is not yet known how the tragic 18-month-old ended up falling from the 10-storey high-rise, but it is believed she crawled out of an open window and was seen "hanging" before she fell.

The baby of Sudanese migrants has been named locally as Elean, and her parents moved to the UK at the start of the year.

They had been living in the seventh-storey flat in Newton, Birmingham, for just two months before this week's tragedy.

It is alleged that people living in the high-rise had expressed their concerns about window safety prior to the girl's death.

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Yesterday Councillor Ziaul Islam, who represents Aston, claimed he raised the issue with Birmingham City Council.

He told the "For too long now local people have been telling us their worries about the safety of windows in these tower blocks.

"I have raised the issue in the past but now, in the light of this awful death, I will be raising it again.

"We simply shouldn't be putting families with young children so high up in these blocks

"There are too many of these blocks with families inside them, with their unprotected windows."

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Birmingham City Council has refused to comment about the safety of the windows, and will only do so once a police investigation is completed.

The grief-stricken mum of the youngster was pregnant but suffered a miscarriage when she saw her daughter's lifeless body, witnesses revealed.

They also claimed they heard the mum arguing shortly before her child's fatal plunge.

Eyewitnesses claim her mother was screaming as she stood over her daughter's body, and that the father was also at the scene.

Police are still awaiting the result of the girl's post mortem examinations and her cause of deaths is unexplained.