A 6-YEAR-OLD girl was hit by a falling chopping board Sunday in Chaguang Village in Nanshan District, suffering severe head injuries.
Police are searching for witnesses, trying to find who threw the chopping board.
The girl, identified as Tongtong, was hit by the board as she passed through a narrow alley between two buildings, the Shenzhen Evening News reported yesterday.
She was operated on at Shenzhen Children s Hospital, the paper said.
I did not expect a chopping board although residents living in the two buildings often throw things out, said the girl s father, surnamed Zhong, who runs a pharmacy in the village.
A sanitation worker, surnamed Chen, said things like garbage and bottles were often thrown from the upper floors.
There was a rubbish bin at the entrance to each building, but many residents did not seem to bother to walk downstairs to dispose of their waste.
Chen and her colleagues had complained to building owners many times, but all in vain.
Village residents said it had become a tradition to throw waste from upper floors, so they were accustomed to it.
There have been a number of incidents causing injury and death from falling objects in Shenzhen this year.
On Nov. 12, a 3-month-old baby was killed when a steel pipe fell from a building under construction in Aomen New Village in Minzhi Subdistrict in Bao an District.
(Li Hao)
