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Boy, 5, who fell to death from 15th-floor flat ‘could have been trying to reach biscuits’

The Independent UK News · 18 August 2026 at 18:55

Boy, 5, who fell to death from 15th-floor flat ‘could have been trying to reach biscuits’

Aalim Ahmed died after falling from a kitchen window at the residential block in Plaistow, east London in 2024

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Boy, 5, who fell to death from 15th-floor flat ‘could have been trying to reach biscuits’

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