WSBT photo/ED ERNSTES

WSBT photo/ED ERNSTES (April 22, 2012)

A stretch of sidewalk on North Michigan Street in South Bend has been closed after a piece of metal siding fell off a building there and struck a young girl in the arm.

This happened at 137 N. Michigan around 2 p.m.The building is occupied by a law office.

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The injury was not serious, an officer told a WSBT reporter at the scene, but there is a risk that more sheets of siding could fall off the building and hit people passing by.