A four-year-old girl is dead after falling from a fifth-floor balcony in a sleepwalking accident.

The young girl fell just after 5 am from an apartment block in Calpe, Alicante, Spain, and later died of her injuries in hospital.

Neither parent was at the property at the time, with local reports suggesting her 15-year-old sister had been left in charge of her and her one-year-old brother.

Her mum and dad reportedly took her to a local health centre before she was transferred to Alicante’s General Hospital in a critical condition.

Investigators found her death was accidental and said they had discovered the little girl had sleepwalked out of her bed early in the morning.

She climbed over the balcony railing before losing her balance and falling over the edge, hitting a car parked below

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