Overview
- Greater Manchester Police announced Friday that a 25-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of child neglect.
- Officers responded to a concern-for-welfare call on Platt Lane in Fallowfield on Thursday morning, and the baby later died in hospital.
- A crime scene remains in place as detectives pursue several lines of inquiry and work with partner agencies.
- Following Thursday's large emergency response, neighbours reported an air ambulance overhead and a paramedic running from a home carrying an infant.
- Police have not stated a cause of death and asked anyone with information to call 101 quoting log 825 of 07/05/26.