Five held by police after newborn baby dies from stab wounds in Sheffield

DCI Tom Woodward of South Yorkshire police said the force would ‘confront every difficult and distressing challenge and pursue every line of inquiry’. Photograph: Graham Turner/The Guardian

Five people are being held on suspicion of murder after a newborn baby died from stab wounds in Sheffield on Sunday.

Police officers found the girl at a property in Holywell Heights, in the Wincobank area of Sheffield, while responding to reports concerning her safety just before 6am on Sunday. She was pronounced dead at the scene.