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02-09-2004, 11:36 AM
HONG KONG (AFP) - 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 said Thursday.
A fire brigade spokesman described the incident as a "miracle and lucky escape".
The former British colony is a dense urban city where the majority of its seven million inhabitants live in high-rise blocks.
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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 said Thursday.
A fire brigade spokesman described the incident as a "miracle and lucky escape".
The former British colony is a dense urban city where the majority of its seven million inhabitants live in high-rise blocks.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...ccident_offbeat (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/hongkong_accident_offbeat)