Five-year-old may have died from air gun pellet

A five-year-old boy who died after suffering a head injury may have been shot with an air gun pellet, police have said.

Leicestershire Police said the unnamed boy was taken to hospital in the early hours last Sunday “with a head injury believed to have been sustained by an air pellet” during an incident in Loughborough.

Two adults arrested in connection with the incident near Nanpantan Road have been released under investigation pending further enquiries. Police said the boy was transferred to Nottingham’s Queen’s Medical Centre, where he died on Wednesday.

The death is currently being treated as unexplained and a post-mortem examination has yet to take place.