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A vertiginous fall that could have been fatal. Saturday evening, around 11 p.m., a 6-year-old child was injured without serious injury after falling from the fourth floor of a building in Décines, near Lyon. 

The boy, who hit the asphalt after this fall from twelve meters, was transported to the Woman Mère Enfant hospital in Bron, where he was treated for a head trauma, reports Le Progrès. The boy, a true miracle, would not suffer from any fracture or serious injury putting his life in danger, according to the daily.

According to the first elements, he was present with his parents with members of his family when the fall took place in circumstances which remain to be clarified.

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