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Baby dies after being dropped from balcony at Bekasi mall
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Jakarta's malls have many tiered balconies. (Kontan.co.id/Baihaki)
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span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A woman has been arrested after allegedly killing a one-month-old baby by throwing it off a balcony in the Bekasi Junction shopping mall in Margahayu, East Bekasi, on Saturday morning.
“The suspect was detained by mall security guards after the incident,” said East Bekasi Police chief Comr. Imam Irawan.
Imam said police investigators from the Women's and Children's Protection unit were intensively questioning the suspect, identified as Fitroha, 30.
“We are looking into the motive behind her actions,” Imam said as quoted by tempo.co.
An eyewitness, Nana, said Fitroha arrived at the mall at 9:00 a.m., carrying the baby. It was not immediately clear whether the baby was hers or not.
“She went up to the mall's top level and dropped the baby,” said Nana, who works as a janitor at the mall.
She said she and her friends could not prevent the incident from happening. They took the baby to nearby Bhakti Kartini hospital in East Bekasi, but doctors declared it dead on arrival at the hospital. (dmr)
