KUCHING: A five-year-old boy was rushed to hospital in critical condition after falling through the window of a bedroom on the third floor of a flat at Mile 13, Kuching-Serian road, yesterday.

The boy’s mother told reporters the incident took place around 1.30pm just as she came out of the bathroom after a shower. She said she heard glass breaking in her children’s bedroom and her nine-year-old daughter screaming for help.

Running to investigate, she saw the window louvres were broken and immediately asked what had happened.

Her daughter replied: “Adik jatuh!”

The woman peered through the broken window and was shocked to see her little boy lying inside a drain three floors down.

She rushed downstairs and called out to him and after seeming to respond to his mother’s voice, the boy, who was reportedly bleeding from his ears and nose, slipped back into unconsciousness.

The distraught woman shouted to her neighbours for help.

As there was no response, she called 999 for an ambulance.

When the ambulance failed to show up, the woman called her aunt staying at Mile 15 who immediately rushed over.

Seeing the serious condition of the boy, the aunt drove to a clinic at Mile 10 to inform them of the incident. The clinic immediately despatched an ambulance.

The boy, whose head was said to be swollen, was rushed to the Sarawak General Hospital where he was warded.

He is reportedly in critical condition.

The mother said the boy has a two-year-old brother while his father is currently working in West Malaysia and has yet to be told of the incident.