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After an accident in a hardware store in Garbsen near Hanover, the police are investigating the parents of a girl who was fatally injured by a falling shopping trolley.
It is about the suspicion of negligent homicide, a spokeswoman for the public prosecutor's office told SPIEGEL.
The parents of the 13-month-old child loaded the shopping cart.
However, it must first be checked how exactly the accident happened and whether the parents could actually be proven to have violated their duty of care.
An autopsy of the dead girl had been arranged.
According to police reports from the weekend, the shopping cart was loaded with plasterboard and skewed.
According to police, the child was next to the shopping cart on Saturday when it overturned.
It was critically injured and later died in a hospital.
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