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RAW NEWS: Uncut footage from Brisbane’s Story Bridge where a man and baby fell to their deaths early Monday morning.
POLICE are treating the deaths of a toddler and a man, who fell from Brisbane’s Story bridge early this morning, as a murder suicide.
Police said the man, thought to be the child’s father, rode his bike over the footpath on the outbound side of the bridge.
It is thought he threw the child over the safety rail and then jumped.
It is understood the man was aged 40, and the boy just two-years-old.
The bike was left on the footpath.
A witness who saw the incident contacted police around 3am.
Police said they did not believe the child was subject to a custody battle of any kind.
They said next-of-kin had been notified.
At noon, LNP leader Campbell Newman extended his condolences to the family, describing the event as “just absolutely awful”.
But he refused to be drawn on whether safety improvements were needed on the bridge.
“I think this is just a terrible thing and my heart goes out to the family and relatives and that’s all I can say today,” he said.
“Let’s find out what’s really happened here.”
Earlier, The Courier-Mail reported that detectives and uniformed police were scouring an area of parkland below the Story Bridge after a man and a child fell to their deaths early Monday morning.
A man walking across the Story Bridge early this morning reportedly alerted police to the deaths.
The man found the pair just after 3am.
Police are using a screen for privacy while they load the two bodies into a silver van around 8am.
Council crews are also at the scene.
Frustrated residents have called for screens across the bridge where pedestrians walk to prevent more people from falling.
Walkers, joggers and cyclists were moved on from the area by police.
Earlier, scientific police dusted for fingerprints on the outbound footpath of the Story Bridge.
Police tape cordoned off a mangrove area below where scientific officers searched for clues.
Traffic re-opened on the Story Bridge just after 7am.
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