Philadelphia police said they are investigating after a 1-year-old girl drowned in Kensington Thursday evening.
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Just after 7 p.m., police responded to a 911 call at a house on the 1800 block of East Somerset Street, police said. Emergency medical personnel were already on scene, police said, and were treating an unresponsive child in the back of an ambulance. Paramedics took her to St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, where she was pronounced dead.
At the home, police found a water-filled basin in the second-floor bathroom, police Chief Inspector Scott Small told CBS Philadelphia Thursday. The house’s dining room on the first floor was also soaked with water.
“At this point in the investigation, there are inconsistencies in witness statements as to where the child was when the incident occurred,” police said Friday.
The department’s Special Victims Unit, which investigates sensitive crimes often involving children, is leading the investigation, police said.
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