A seven-year-old girl has died after being stabbed by a stranger in a park.<\/p>\n
The girl suffered serious injuries in the attack at Queen’s Park in Bolton at about 14:30 GMT, Greater Manchester Police said.<\/p>\n
A force spokesman said despite the “best efforts of her family and medical responders, she died a short while later”.<\/p>\n
A 30-year-old woman, who was not known to the family, was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder.<\/p>\n
Assistant Chief Constable Russ Jackson said officers were “working to understand the motive for this completely random and brutal attack”.<\/p>\n
“A woman who was not known to the family was detained by a member of the public and then arrested by the police,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We understand that the woman has some history of mental illness and we are working to understand if this played any part in her motive.”<\/p>\n
He said the attack was “a family’s worst nightmare”.<\/p>\n
“The incident is horrendous and I cannot begin to imagine what the family of this little girl are going through,” Mr Jackson said.<\/p>\n
“We are determined to quickly understand how this came to happen, leaving a young family so distraught and so devastated in an instant.”<\/p>\n
Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"