Duisburg (dpa / lnw) - In Duisburg, a three-year-old child fell from an apartment on the third floor of an apartment building on Monday.

According to the police, it was seriously injured but not critically injured in a hospital.

The police in Duisburg said it was an accident.

The emergency services had been alerted by emergency call.

The fall was apparently softened because the child fell on a canopy.