Woman and school-aged child die outside Melbourne tower as police investigate
A woman and a primary school-aged child were found dead outside a 30-storey apartment tower in Box Hill, Melbourne, prompting a police investigation. The deaths are being treated as an incident whose circumstances remain unclear; police say they are not currently seeking anyone else in connection with it.
Emergency services were called to Prospect Street at about 6.20pm on Thursday after reports of an unresponsive woman. Police found the woman on the footpath and the child nearby, but both died at the scene. The area remained cordoned off on Friday as detectives investigated; it is not known whether they lived in the tower.
In short
- A woman and child died outside a Melbourne apartment tower.
- Police are investigating the circumstances of their deaths.
- Detectives say they are not seeking anyone else at this stage.
Explained simply
Box Hill is a suburb east of central Melbourne, in the state of Victoria. Prospect Street is near a cluster of shops, homes and public transport, and the area includes high-rise apartment buildings.
Victoria Police investigate deaths that occur in unclear circumstances, while emergency services attend to people in immediate danger. Police have said they are not seeking anyone else in connection with this incident; how the woman and child came to be there has not been established publicly.
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Originally published by Daily Mail as “Horror in Melbourne as woman and young child found dead on footpath outside 30-storey apartment tower”.