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Tasmania Police say death of 15-day-old baby boy now considered suspicious

Tasmania Police say death of 15-day-old baby boy now considered suspicious. Image / Pulse

Tasmania Police are now treating the death of a 15-day-old baby boy from the south of the state as suspicious.

The baby was admitted to the Royal Hobart Hospital with critical injuries on Thursday, November 5. He died two days later.

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Police today said detectives were following “a specific line of inquiry”.

“Police are now treating the death last week of a 15-day-old baby from southern Tasmania as suspicious,” a spokesperson said.

Police first said yesterday that they were investigating the death.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Bridgewater CIB on 131 444 or report anonymously to Crime Stoppers Tasmania, quoting offence report 821935.