A man was arrested on suspicion of killing his three-year-old daughter in the Sur Baher neighborhood of East Jerusalem early Monday morning, Israel Police said.

According to the statement, emergency services were called at around 4 a.m. and medics declared the child’s death on the scene.

Her father, a resident of the neighborhood in his 30s and who was apparently with her earlier, had fled the scene but was located and detained by cops a short time later.

Magen David Adom medics who attended the scene reported the girl had stab wounds to her upper body. She was unconscious........

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