Tributes left at scene where seven-year-old girl was murdered in a Bolton park - as a woman is sectioned under the Mental Health Act

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A woman arrested on suspicion of murdering a girl of seven on Mother's Day has been sectioned under the Mental Health Act. The 30-year-old is currently detained at a secure hospital unit.

A police investigation is continuing into the 'unprovoked and random' attack in Queen's Park near Bolton town centre on Sunday afternoon in which a girl of seven was stabbed with a knife.

She died of catastrophic injuries a short time later. Her family is being supported by specialist police officers. Police officers who attended the scene, some of them only having joined GMP recently, are also being offered support.

The suspect, who has a history of mental illness, was detained by members of the public before police arrived at the scene of the stabbing.