A TWO-year-old girl died after she was allegedly thrown from a pedestrian footbridge at an American shopping centre by her grandmother.

The incident happened at the Tysons Corner Center mall, near Washington, DC, yesterday.

Police said Carmela Dela Rosa, 50, of Fairfax, Virginia was walking out of the mall across the sixth-floor footbridge with the victim and other family members when she picked up the child and threw her over the edge.

Authorities arrested Rosa and she faces charges of aggravated malicious wounding. Police have no motive for her actions.

The child was taken to hospital but later died from her injuries.



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Originally published as Girl, 2, dies after being thrown from bridge