A US teenager has been arrested in Paris after her newborn baby was allegedly thrown out of a hotel window and died, prosecutors and French media say.

An 18-year-old American tourist tossed her newborn out a second-floor window of a Paris hotel Monday, killing the infant, authorities say. Screams erupted at the ibis Styles hotel in the city’s bohemian 20th arrondissement,

An American woman was being held in police custody in Paris following the death of her newborn baby who was thrown from the window of a hotel, authorities said.