China baby survives 8-storey plunge

SHANGHAI, July 13 (Reuters) A 10-month-old girl survived an eight-storey plunge after her drunk father apparetnly threw her out a window during an argument with his mother-in-law, the Shanghai Daily said today.

The child suffered only a broken leg when her fall was slowed by branches of a tree and she landed in a flower bed, the newspaper said. She was in hospital but out of danger.

Her father, a 26-year security guard, was in detention, the newspaper said.

In an interview on a Shanghai TV station, the father said the fall was an accident.

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