The five-year-old girl died in hospital and the woman is in a life-threatening condition after the incident in south London.
A woman has described how she rushed to her neighbour's flat to find a mother"lying in a pool of blood" next to her lifeless child., south London, on Tuesday afternoon, where a five-year-old girl and 35-year-old woman were found.
The girl later died in hospital and the woman is in hospital with life-threatening injuries, police said. Neighbour Elsa Gonzales, 47, said she heard screaming and crying coming from her next-door flat, where a family of four from Sri Lanka lived. Mrs Gonzales, a former emergency department worker, rushed inside to find the mother and child in the bedroom."There was blood everywhere. I looked on the bed and saw the girl, she was covered in a blanket."
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