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25/06/2009
Boy And Girl Drown In Irish Rivers
A teenage girl and young boy have died in separate drowning accidents.
In Co Down, ten-year-old Daniel Andre died in hospital after pulled from the River Bann.
It is understood that he was in the river with friends at Hilltown, near Rathfriland, when he got into difficulties shortly before 5pm yesterday.
It is thought he may have been under the water for several minutes before rescuers found him.
Emergency staff had worked to resuscitate him at the scene before he was taken to hospital in Newry and was then transferred to Belfast, but died this morning.
In a second tragic drowning, a 16-year-old girl died after getting trapped in the River Liffey in the Strawberry Beds area of Chapelizod, Dublin.
The teenage girl from Clonsilla was walking along the side of Wrens Nest Weir when she lost her footing and fell into the river. She became trapped under a large piece of wood.
Onlookers, firemen and gardaí tried to help her. She was taken to James Connolly Memorial Hospital in Blanchardstown but staff were unable to save her, and she was pronounced dead.
(DW/BMcC)
In Co Down, ten-year-old Daniel Andre died in hospital after pulled from the River Bann.
It is understood that he was in the river with friends at Hilltown, near Rathfriland, when he got into difficulties shortly before 5pm yesterday.
It is thought he may have been under the water for several minutes before rescuers found him.
Emergency staff had worked to resuscitate him at the scene before he was taken to hospital in Newry and was then transferred to Belfast, but died this morning.
In a second tragic drowning, a 16-year-old girl died after getting trapped in the River Liffey in the Strawberry Beds area of Chapelizod, Dublin.
The teenage girl from Clonsilla was walking along the side of Wrens Nest Weir when she lost her footing and fell into the river. She became trapped under a large piece of wood.
Onlookers, firemen and gardaí tried to help her. She was taken to James Connolly Memorial Hospital in Blanchardstown but staff were unable to save her, and she was pronounced dead.
(DW/BMcC)
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