Tot plunges to death at Toronto airport

TORONTO, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Police are classifying the death of a 15-month-old boy at Toronto's international airport an accident after he squirmed from his mother's arms and fell 50 feet.

Veronica Romano was holding her son Lucca in her arms near the railing of the second-floor departure level of Terminal One when an older child distracted her Sunday evening, the Toronto Star reported Tuesday.

The infant wriggled from her arms and toppled over a four-foot railing, falling 50 feet onto the marble floor of the arrivals level, police said.

Romano and her husband Flavio raced down escalators and by the time they reached the child, he was surrounded by firefighters and paramedics, the Star said.

The child was declared dead at an area hospital, the Toronto Sun said.

The immigrant family was about to return to their native Argentina to have the boy baptized before resettling from Winnipeg, Manitoba, to an area west of Toronto to be nearer relatives, the reports said.

Relatives said the family will return the boy's body to Argentina for burial, the Star said.