Toddler taken to hospital after falling from 6th-floor balcony in Mississauga

A two-year-old is airlifted to a Toronto hospital after falling from a sixth-floor balcony at a Mississauga apartment building on July 13, 2013. (Tom Podolec / CTV TORONTO)

A 2-year-old boy has been airlifted to a Toronto hospital after falling from the sixth-floor balcony of a Mississauga apartment building.

It happened around 5:45 p.m. at a building on Colonial Drive, near Highway 403 and Burnhamthorpe Road, Peel Police say.

Emergency Medical Services told CP24 the child was conscious and breathing when he was rushed to Credit Valley Hospital. He was transferred to Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto via air ambulance.

It is not clear how the boy fell from the balcony, and police said the extent of his injuries is unknown at this time.