A woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after an 18-day-old baby girl fell from a property in central London.<\/p>\n
The Metropolitan police said officers attended Horseferry Road in Westminster after reports on Saturday morning that a baby had fallen from a residential property.<\/p>\n
The newborn was taken to hospital and was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n
A 43-year-old woman was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder and taken into police custody, the force added.<\/p>\n
A forensic investigator at the scene. Photograph: Lucy North\/PA<\/p>\n
Met DCI Alison Foxwell said: \u201cOur thoughts today are with the baby\u2019s family.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe death of an infant is always an extremely tragic occurrence, and officers are making urgent inquiries around the circumstances.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt this stage, we believe the incident occurred within a domestic context, but we are appealing for anybody with information to come forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
The junction of Great Peter Street and Horseferry Road in Westminster, where an 18-day-old baby girl died after falling from a residential property. Photograph: Lucy North\/PA<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the London ambulance service said the baby was treated at the scene before being taken to a major trauma centre.<\/p>\n
A police cordon covered most of Great Peter Street on Saturday evening and two forensics officers could be seen working in a third floor flat in the Peabody Estate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after an 18-day-old baby girl fell from a property…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-476010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}