Police enquiries are ongoing after a child was rushed to hospital after falling three storeys from a balcony in Crystal Palace on Friday evening (May 27).

The eight-year-old girl remains in a south London hospital four days later.

The London Ambulance Service (LAS) were called at 6.33pm to reports of a fall from height near Crystal Palace Park Road.

They then sent the London Air Ambulance with an advanced trauma team, as well as an ambulance crew and an incident response officer.

A spokesman for the LAS said: "Our ambulance arrived at the scene in four minutes.

"We treated a child at the scene and took her as a priority by road to a major trauma centre."

A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said that the girl's injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.

Police are continuing to enquire into the circumstances of the fall.

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