A two-year-old girl is dead after she was struck by an air conditioning unit that fell from the eighth floor of a Scarborough building Monday afternoon.

Toronto police say they were called to the corner of Lawrence Avenue East and Mossbank Drive around 3:45 p.m.

Paramedics rushed the toddler to Sick Kids Hospital with critical life-threatening injuries. She later succumbed to those injuries and died in hospital.

Police are investigating as it is still not clear what caused the air conditioning to fall on the child. No charges have been laid.

“Any family going through this is a tragedy,” said Toronto police Const. Caroline de Kloet.

In a statement released Tuesday, Toronto Community Housing said they are “deeply saddened by the death” at their building on Lawrence Avenue East and that their “thoughts are with the family at this difficult time.”

The community housing corporation also said they were working alongside police to figure out what happened and will take “appropriate action once the facts are known.”

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