The 37-year-old and the boy were playing in the corridor on the fourth floor while waiting for a lift before the toddler plunged 33ft to the hotel's main veranda below.

A young British toddler has tragically died in Cyprus after falling off a fourth-floor hotel balcony while on holiday with his parents.

Police arrested the boy’s father, a 37-year-old man after the tot fell from the fourth-floor window of a hotel in Cyprus on Sunday evening.