Teen survives 20-storey jump

[Steve]

From correspondents in Hong Kong
February 5, 2004

A 15-year-old boy miraculously survived after leaping 20 storeys to escape taunts by his older brother for losing in a computer game.

The boy was taken to hospital pale but unscathed after landing on the awning of a shop on the ground floor of the Kowloon district residential block where he lives, Sing Tao newspaper reported today.

A fire brigade spokesman described the incident as a "miracle and lucky escape".

The former British colony is a dense urban city where most of its seven million inhabitants live in high-rise blocks.


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