India, July 25 -- A four-year-old girl died after falling from the window of a 12th-floor apartment in Maharashtra's Vasai while her mother was preparing to leave a relative's home.

The heart-wrenching incident, captured on a security camera, unfolded in a matter of seconds.

It was around 8.30 pm on July 22 when the child, who had accompanied her mother on a visit to a relative's flat, slipped and fell to her death. The two were preparing to leave when, in a brief moment of distraction, tragedy struck.

Police said that the woman placed the girl on a shoe rack near an open window while attending to something else.

"The child moved slightly and fell out of the window, which did not have any protective grills," news agency PTI quoted a p...