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Brooklyn toddler found dead in Park Slope apartment: police

A 2-year-old girl was found dead in a Brooklyn apartment Saturday, police said.

Cops responded to a 911 call for an unconscious child in a building on Prospect Park Avenue near 3rd Street in Park Slope just before 1 p.m., officials said.

When they arrived, they found the tot unresponsive, and rushed her to New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

The city Medical Examiner will determine the cause of death, though the child had no obvious body trauma, police said.

The girl had recently been hospitalized for the flu, sources said.