Boy thrown from London’s Tate Modern is ‘stable’

A six-year-old boy thrown from a tenth-floor viewing platform at London’s Tate Modern gallery is no longer in a life-threatening condition, police said yesterday. A 17-year-old boy arrested following the incident on Sunday afternoon remains in custody, on suspicion of attempted murder. The contemporary art museum on the banks of the River Thames, Britain’s most popular visitor attraction, was evacuated but was due to reopen yesterday.  However, the Tate said the viewing platform was closed. The boy fell from there onto a fifth floor roof and was airlifted to hospital by helicopter. He is “no longer in a life-threatening situation”, a police spokesman said yesterday. “He is in a critical but stable condition in hospital.”