When Greek Australian couple Nick and Connie Christou saw a flash out of the corner of their eyes, followed by a loud thud, they didn’t expect to have just witnessed a little girl falling from the eighth storey of the Gold Coast apartment complex.
“We saw a little girl in the hedge trying to get out. Connie jumped into the garden and she threw her arms around Connie and wouldn’t let go,” Mr Christou told The Courier Mail.
“She was calm and coherent, which is why we didn’t think she could have fallen from so high up. We didn’t know where she had come from. We thought maybe one floor up at most.”
Parents John Horne, a Singaporean businessman, and his wife Rahima were said to have been out looking at real estate when the fall took place, police investigations finding the fall to be an accident.
A gentleman also staying at the Gold Coast complex called paramedics, who rushed four-year-old Alexa Horne to the Gold Coast University Hospital.
Despite a broken leg and other abdominal injuries, she is now in a stable condition and in recovery.
With both parents feeling extremely lucky to have their daughter alive and well, the couple gave thanks to all involved in the rescue of their daughter, with a special mention to the Christous.
“Both her mother and I feel extremely lucky after the fall she had,” said Mr Horne.
“We would like to pass on our thanks to all the staff at Gold Coast University Hospital, Queensland Ambulance Service and the Phoenician Hotel, as well as members of the public who came to her aid.
“In particular, we want to make special thanks to the couple who cared for Alexa so well immediately after her fall.”
Fortunate to have only suffered a broken leg, Alexa’s survival is considered to be something of a miracle, her mother suitably dubbing her an “angel”.
Source :Courier Mail