A TEENAGE girl hanging from a concrete beam eight floors up so her friend could take a photo of her had to be rescued from a Barcelona block of flats, Catalunya regional police reported yesterday (Monday).
Mossos d'Esquadra officers say the 14-year-old – shown on their Twitter picture, left – had climbed onto the roof terrace of the building in the Eixample neighbourhood and hung by her hands from a metal bar on the outer wall for a 'selfie', which her friend took using her mobile phone.
But when she wanted to get back onto the roof, she did not have the strength to do so.
She dropped down onto a cornice just below, eight storeys above the ground and barely two feet wide, then the magnitude of her situation hit her and she had a panic attack.
A couple of centimetres was all that stood between her and a massive fall that would almost certainly have been fatal.
Her friend called emergency services, and the Mossos managed to lift her onto the roof by her hands, although she was in an extreme state of nerves as she did so.
Paramedics had been summoned, and treated her on the scene for anxiety and for minor scrape marks on her arms.
Police called her parents to the scene, and they took her straight home.
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