Six women arrested after one-year-old boy dies at Dudley nursery

Police said a postmortem had taken place but further tests would be conducted to establish the cause of death. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA

Six women have been arrested after the death of a one-year-old boy at a nursery in Dudley, police said.

A criminal investigation was launched after a visit by Ofsted following the boy’s death on 9 December last year. West Midlands police said they were treating the boy’s death as suspicious.