A girl broke her spine while swinging on a swing

In St. Petersburg, a six-year-old girl broke her spine while riding on a swing in a kindergarten. A boy the girl knew suddenly got off the swing and the heroine of the video hit the ground.

The published footage shows that the girl grabbed her back due to severe pain after the blow.

The girl suffered multiple fractures of the thoracic spine. She is currently undergoing rehabilitation in the hospital.

— Diagnosis: multiple fractures of the thoracic spine. Compression fracture. Injury as a result of a blow to the back on a swing in a kindergarten in the Krasnogvardeisky district of St. Petersburg, — the documents say.