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Matthew Si (left) and Jess Mudie died when a car ran them down in Bourke Street, Melbourne.

Bourke Street attack: baby boy dies, death toll rises

Melbourne's Bourke Street rampage attack has already claimed five lives, but there are fears this grim toll could rise, with six people remaining in a critical condition as a mass of flowers grew near the scene of the tragedy.

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Irene Ekes said Zac was left in the pool for "two seconds" while his mother got him an iceblock.

Mum 'was getting iceblock' when son nearly drowned in Sydney pool

The mother of a three-year-old boy who nearly drowned in Sydney's west had gone inside briefly to get her son an iceblock, only to return to find him floating unconscious in the backyard swimming pool, according to the boy's family.

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Police at the house in Fairfield West, where toddler Henry Tran fell into a fish pond.

Toddler dies in hospital after being pulled from pond

A two-year-old boy who was found unconscious in a fish pond at a house in Sydney's west last week has died in hospital, the latest victim in a spate of tragic drownings to plague the state this summer.

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