A six year-old girl has survived a fall from the 18th floor of a building in the northwestern Colombian city of Medellin.
Medical staff said that the child is in 'grave' but 'stable' condition.
The little girl "is in very delicate condition with multisystemic injuries, but remains stable within her grave condition," Sydney Morning Herald quoted Carlos Sanchez, the head of the medical division of El Rosario Clinic, as saying.
The incident had occurred at a high-rise apartment building in Medellin 's upscale El Poblado neighbourhood.
The girl is estimated to have plunged from a height of some 45 metres with nothing to break her fall.
Sanchez said that the minor has been given 'artificial respiration' and that she had suffered a cardiorespiratory arrest, from which she had managed to emerge, and has undergone several surgeries.
He said that the medical team of specialists had been doing everything that they could to keep the child alive.
He also said that one reason the little girl had survived was that her bones were still forming and for that reason 'her body is more flexible' and had a greater ability to recover than an adult patient would.
Authorities have launched out an investigation to find out exactly how the accident had occurred.