A woman has died and a man has been arrested following an assault in Waterford city.<\/p>\n
Emergency services responded to the incident at a property in the Grange Heights housing estate at around 6.15pm yesterday.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed and the National Ambulance Service attended the scene where a woman was discovered with serious injuries.<\/p>\n
The woman, who was in her 40s and understood to be Polish, was taken to University Hospital Waterford, where she was pronounced dead a short time later.<\/p>\n
A man, aged in his 40s, was arrested at the scene.<\/p>\n
He is being held at a garda station in the Waterford Division under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act.<\/p>\n
It is understood that the man who was arrested and the victim were known to each other.<\/p>\n
The scene was preserved to allow for a technical examination to take place.<\/p>\n
A senior investigating officer has been appointed to lead the investigation and in incident room has been established at Waterford Garda Station.<\/p>\n
The man can detained for a total of 24 hours – excluding rest breaks – before he must either be released or have charges put to him.<\/p>\n
A Family Liaison Officer has also been assigned to support the family of the deceased.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed are appealing for witnesses to come forward.<\/p>\n
They particularly want to speak to anyone who was in the Grange Heights area between 6pm and 6.30pm.<\/p>\n
They also want to speak to anyone who may have camera footage, including CCTV or dashcam from the area at the time.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is asked to contact Waterford Garda Station on 051 305300, the Garda Confidential Line at 1800 666 111 or any garda station.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed have said investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has died and a man has been arrested following an assault in Waterford city. Emergency services…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-421217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}