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17 December 2010
Last updated at 22:09 ET
A four-year-old girl has been found dead at an address on an east London housing estate.
The child's body was discovered at a property on Elderfield Road, Clapton, at about 1530 GMT on Thursday after reports of a knife incident.
A woman, 36, believed to be the girl's mother, has been sectioned under the Mental Health Act after being arrested on suspicion of the girl's murder
A post-mortem examination is due to be held later in Poplar, east London.
Police said next of kin had been informed but formal identification has yet to take place.
The girl was pronounced dead at the scene, an address on the Chatsworth Estate.
The Scotland Yard unit which deals with child abuse is leading the murder inquiry.
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The child's body was discovered at a property on Elderfield Road, Clapton, at about 1530 GMT on Thursday after reports of a knife incident.
A woman, 36, believed to be the girl's mother, has been sectioned under the Mental Health Act after being arrested on suspicion of the girl's murder
A post-mortem examination is due to be held later in Poplar, east London.
Police said next of kin had been informed but formal identification has yet to take place.
The girl was pronounced dead at the scene, an address on the Chatsworth Estate.
The Scotland Yard unit which deals with child abuse is leading the murder inquiry.
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