A 16-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder and rape following the death of a 13-year-old girl in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire Police have confirmed.
Officers were called to a flat on Sheepridge Road at 11:36pm on Monday after reports that the girl was unresponsive. She was taken to hospital but died in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
A postmortem examination conducted on Wednesday was unable to determine the cause of death, which remains unexplained pending further inquiries. The suspect, from Huddersfield, is also being investigated in connection with a separate rape of a 16-year-old girl in the Kirklees district.
Detective Chief Inspector Stacey Atkinson said: 'A postmortem was not able to determine how she died, and we continue to treat her death as unexplained at this time, pending more inquiries. Those inquiries are complex and are likely to be lengthy as we work to fully understand the circumstances of the girl’s death.'
The teenager remains in police custody.
