MELBOURNE, Australia — A 4-year-old girl died today after her father allegedly threw her 190 feet from a bridge into a river, police said.
Police pulled the girl from the water about 10 minutes after witnesses reported seeing her being thrown from near the top of the busy West Gate Bridge in Melbourne, police Detective Inspector Steve Clark said. The Royal Children’s Hospital said the girl died shortly after being admitted.
Clark said the girl’s two older siblings, ages 6 and 8, were left in a vehicle on the bridge while their 35-year-old father allegedly threw her.
About an hour later, the “distressed” father was arrested outside a Melbourne court where he was standing with his two other children, Clark said. Clark said there had been a dispute between the father and the children’s mother in the family court.
