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‘Miracle baby’ falls 11 storeys from US tower block and survives

Doctors hail survival of 15-month-old Musa Dayib who is in hospital recovering from serious injuries following fall from balcony of family apartment on the 11th storey

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Musa Dayib is in "critical but stable" condition in hospital after his fall from the apartment block. Photo: AP

A 15-month-old US boy has survived an 11-storey fall from a balcony at his parents’ apartment in Minneapolis, Minnesota, local media reported on Wednesday.

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Musa Dayib has been nicknamed “the miracle baby” after escaping death despite slipping through the railing and making a perilous fall.

In addition to fractures to both his arms, his backbone and his ribs, Dayib also suffered concussion and is breathing through a ventilator. In critical but stable condition, he is expected to survive.

The boy was apparently saved by his soft landing spot.

“If you and I fell that far, we would be dead,” Tina Slusher said from the paediatric intensive care unit at Hennepin County Medical Centre, the reported.

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“He’s a baby and ... they tend to be more flexible and pliable than you and I would be. Having said that, it’s a real gift from God that he made it because this is a huge fall.”

The said the boy, from the large Somali American community in Minneapolis, fell from his family’s balcony around 8pm local time on Sunday.

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