Children fall from building in Sweden, 1 dies; 2 adults held

Swedish police said Monday they have arrested two adults on suspicion of murder after two children fell “from a great height” and one of them died.

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Those arrested are a man and a woman, police said.

The children, who reportedly were siblings and both under the age of 10, were rushed to a hospital but one of them died. The other child has life-threatening injuries, police said.

The Expressen tabloid said the children’s father had stabbed the children before throwing them out of the window of their apartment in western Stockholm late Sunday. A passerby found the children and alerted police.

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