Child drowns after babysitter leaves her alone in tub of Brooklyn apartment

A 5-year-old girl slipped underwater and died after her babysitter left her alone in the tub of a Broooklyn apartment Thursday night, police said.

The child, whose name was not immediately released, was discovered by the 25-year-old man who was babysitting her, cops said.

He left the girl alone in the tub in the third-floor apartment on Hull St. near Saratoga Ave. in Brownsville and returned sometime later when he saw her beneath the water, cops said.

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