A 10-year-old boy has died after suffering severe head injuries in an incident involving furniture at a Topshop store.
The incident happened at the Oracle shopping centre in Reading, Berkshire, on Monday, which was the first day of the school holidays. Police said they were called to the mall at 4.15pm by ambulance crews.
The child was treated at the scene and then taken to the Royal Berkshire hospital where he later died from his injuries.
A spokesman for Thames Valley police said it was treating the death as unexplained but not suspicious. The family of the child has been informed. A spokesman for the force said it would be making further inquiries.
A police spokesman said: “On attendance, officers found that a 10-year-old boy had suffered serious head injuries after an incident involving store furniture. The boy was taken to the Royal Berkshire hospital where sadly he was pronounced dead.”
The entrance to the shopping mall was sealed off by police to allow paramedics to treat the boy in privacy before he was taken to the hospital. Several ambulances and police cars were seen on Bridge Street close to the entrance to the Oracle just after 4.30pm.
A spokeswoman for the shopping centre had previously confirmed there was an incident at the store in which a child had been injured, Get Reading reported.
