India, June 30 -- A seven-year-old boy sustained a head injury after a portion of a balcony overhang collapsed on him while he was playing outside his ground-floor house at a residential condominium in Sector 102 on Monday afternoon, residents said.

The incident occurred around 1:45pm at BPTP Amstoria's Block A. The child's father, Vikas Chaudhary, said his son was rushed to a nearby hospital and required stitches.

"First, the second-floor concrete balcony collapsed onto the floors below. This impact was such that it caused the first- and ground-floor overhangs to also collapse. My son was struck by falling debris," Chaudhary claimed.

He added that this is not the first such incident reported in the society. "Seven to eight similar cas...