A nine-year-old girl was injured after falling from a horizontal bar in St. Petersburg.

A 9-year-old girl was injured as a result of a fall from a horizontal bar on a playground in St. Petersburg. This was announced on Sunday, June 8, by the press service of the Main Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the city.

"In the evening of June 7, a 9-year-old girl fell from a horizontal bar on a playground on Pakhomovskaya Street and hit her stomach on a crossbar. She was placed in intensive care in a serious condition," the department wrote on its Telegram channel.

Upon the incident, the investigative department for the Krasnogvardeysky district of the GSU of the Investigative Committee of Russia for St. Petersburg initiated a procedural check under Article 238 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Provision of services that do not meet safety requirements").

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