Police have arrested a woman after the suspicious death of a newborn baby girl in Cambridgeshire.
Officers responded to concerns for the wellbeing of a woman and her baby at a home in Oxford Way, Cambourne, at 7.40am on Saturday. The baby was taken to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, where she was pronounced dead on arrival.
Woman arrested and treated in hospital
Cambridgeshire Police confirmed the woman was also taken to the same hospital and has been kept there. A force spokesperson said: 'Police are treating the death as suspicious and the woman in hospital has been arrested in connection.'
Detective Inspector Andy Moralee said: "This is a tragic death of a baby girl – a very sad and, we believe, isolated incident. The circumstances remain under investigation, but we are treating her death as suspicious."
Investigation ongoing
The circumstances surrounding the death remain under investigation by police.
