{"id":608708,"date":"2026-04-16T20:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T20:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/608708\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T20:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T20:21:08","slug":"preschool-age-child-dies-in-fall-no-foul-play-suspected-winnipeg-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/608708\/","title":{"rendered":"Preschool-age child dies in fall, no foul play suspected: Winnipeg police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>A preschool-age child has died after a fall in downtown Winnipeg on Wednesday afternoon, police say.<\/p>\n<p>Just after 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, officers were called with  a report of a fall involving a preschool-age child in the 400 block of Kennedy Street, between Qu&#8217;Appelle and Cumberland avenues,  the Winnipeg Police Service said in an email to CBC News.<\/p>\n<p>The child was taken to hospital in critical condition and later died, police said.<\/p>\n<p>They did not provide any details about the child, such as their age, or how the fall happened.<\/p>\n<p>A Winnipeg Fire Paramedic spokesperson confirmed the service responded to a medical call in the 400 block of Kennedy Street on Wednesday, and a patient was taken to hospital in critical condition, but said no further details could be provided due to privacy laws.<\/p>\n<p>The incident doesn&#8217;t appear to be criminal in nature and no foul play is suspected, police said. <\/p>\n<p>However, the police service&#8217;s child abuse unit, which investigates all sudden deaths involving children, is looking into the incident, the email said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-608708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}