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Teenager charged with attempted murder after six-year-old allegedly thrown from Tate Modern viewing platform

A teenager has been charged with attempted murder after a six-year-old boy was allegedly thrown from the tenth floor of the Tate Modern art gallery.

The 17-year-old is due to appear at Bromley Youth Court today.

The child was airlifted to hospital after he was found on a fifth-floor roof at the gallery on Sunday afternoon.

The child, who is a French national visiting London with his family, is in a stable but critical condition after he fell five storeys.

Scotland Yard has said there is no link between the suspect and the victim.

Emergency services at the scene (Greg Ritchie/PA Wire)

Officers were called to the gallery at around 2.40pm and the child was treated at the scene before being flown to hospital by London's Air Ambulance.

DCI John Massey said on Monday: "It would have been incredibly distressing to watch, and it may be that you left Tate Modern very quickly after. If you have not yet spoken to us about what you saw, please contact us without delay."

The Tate Modern was the UK's most popular tourist attraction in 2018 after being visited 5.9 million times, according to the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the incident room on 0208 721 4868, quoting CAD 4660/4August, or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

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