A young girl narrowly escaped serious injury while playing outside a library after lumps of masonry fell from a building above.

Six-year-old Samia Chikhi was playing in the street outside Roehampton Library, in Danebury Avenue, on August 21 when pieces of roofing and stone from Allbrook House - built on top of the library - crashed to the ground nearby.

The incident came just weeks after the death of Peter Westropp, 27, who was killed by a piece of falling masonry outside Le Bouchon in Battersea Rise.

Samia's father, Queen Mary's Hospital worker Tahar Chikhi, who lives in Allbrook House, took the pieces of debris to Wandsworth Council on the following day to show in a bid to get them act on the state of the block.

Mr Chikhi said: "We were just walking by the library and she was playing on the street. She was there on her scooter and it fell down two metres from her.

"She fell off as she was so shocked by it. They asked me if it hit me. The point is it could hit anyone.

"It will hurt someone next time. This building should be down."

A council spokesman said: "We were obviously very concerned when we heard what had happened and carried out an immediate safety check on the building.

"We have already completed repairs and will be monitoring the situation very closely to try and ensure this does not happen again."

He added the building, which was built in the 1960s, had been subject to regular maintenance and had undegone a detailed inspection in 2009 using abseiling equipment. The spokesman said another " full, detailed inspection will take place shortly".

But an unhappy Mr Chikhi claimed he had seen small pieces of stone fall from the building since the recent safety check. He is calling on the council to put warning signs up, likening the potential danger to "a bomb waiting to explode".

Mr Chikhi is refusing to let Samia play near the library, and even suggested he may buy helmets for his family.

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