Police are appealing for information after the boy fell from the ninth floor of the Metropolitan hotel on Wednesday

A five-year-old boy who fell to his death from a hotel window was an Afghan refugee whose family recently fled the Taliban.

South Yorkshire police have appealed for information after the boy’s death in what was reported to be a fall from the ninth floor of Sheffield’s Metropolitan hotel in Blonk Street at approximately 2.30pm on Wednesday.

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