The child, who had been playing on the roof, was in traumatic cardiac arrest when rescue personnel reached him and was pronounced dead at Shaare Tzedek Hospital.
11-Year-Old Boy Dies In Fall From Roof Of Haredi Yeshiva
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
An 11-year-old boy fell to his death in the Ramot neighborhood of Jerusalem Saturday, Yeshiva World reported.
The boy fell into a shaft on the roof of the Shaare Daas Yeshiva, a grammar school-level haredi yeshiva, at approximately 8:00 pm.
The child was in traumatic cardiac arrest when rescue personnel reached him and was pronounced dead at Shaare Tzedek Hospital.
Police, who are investigating the death, say the boy was playing on the roof of the yeshiva building and fell into a hole or through a skylight window into the shaft, which contains the building’s staircase.