A police investigation has been launched after the bodies of a woman and child were found outside a 30-storey high-rise apartment tower.
Emergency services were called to Prospect Street in Box Hill, in Melbourne‘s eastern suburbs, about 6.20pm Thursday after reports that a woman had been found unresponsive.
Police rushed to the scene where they located the woman’s body on the footpath and an unresponsive primary school-aged child nearby.
The pair could not be revived and died at the scene.
The vicinity was cordoned off for much of the night as detectives investigate the circumstances surrounding the deaths.
‘At this early stage, police are not looking for anyone else in relation to the incident,’ Victoria Police said in a statement.
It’s unclear whether the pair lived at the Promenade apartment complex.
Shocked residents knew very little about what had happened.
The bodies of a woman and child were found outside a 30-storey high-rise apartment tower In Melbourne’s east
The grim discovery was made in Box Hill shortly before 6.30pm on Thursday night
Many residents received texts from police asking them to remain inside.
‘I just feel a little terrified that it happened in my building,’ one woman told The Age.
Anyone who witnessed the incident or has information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers.
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