{"id":18754,"date":"2014-05-15T11:50:45","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T11:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=18754"},"modified":"2014-05-15T11:50:45","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T11:50:45","slug":"miracle-us-baby-survives-11-storey-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/05\/miracle-us-baby-survives-11-storey-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Miracle’ US baby survives 11-storey fall"},"content":{"rendered":"
A baby in the US state of Minnesota has survived an 11-storey fall from an apartment balcony, local media report.<\/p>\n
Musa Dayib, one, has two arm fractures and is breathing with the help of a ventilator but is expected to live, after slipping through a railing.<\/p>\n
His doctor said his youth as well as the softer ground he landed on helped contribute to his survival.<\/p>\n
Family and friends in Minneapolis’s Somali community say the family is in shock.<\/p>\n
“When people found out he survived, no one could believe it,” community activist Abdirizak Bihi\u00a0told the Star-Tribune newspaper<\/a>.<\/p>\n “I’m more concerned about his dad and his mother,” Mr Bihi said. “They’re devastated. They can’t even speak.”<\/p>\n Dr Tina Slusher, who treated Musa, said an adult who fell from that distance would almost certainly be dead.<\/p>\n “Little [children] are more flexible and don’t break as easily as we do and he also fell in a very small patch of mulch [loose material put on soil],” she told\u00a0local broadcaster KARE<\/a>.<\/p>\n But she added it was “definitely a miracle. It’s God’s gift to his family. Kids don’t fall this far and make it often.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A baby in the US state of Minnesota has survived an 11-storey fall from an apartment balcony, local media report. Musa Dayib, one, has two arm fractures and is breathing with the help of a ventilator but is expected to live, after slipping through a railing. His doctor said his youth as well as the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[702,712,7],"yoast_head":"\n