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15th March 2023
11:44am GMT
A three-year-old has died after he was reportedly hit by a ride-on lawnmower that was being by his dad in a tragic accident.
Police officers in South Pambula, Australia, were called to Pambula District Hospital on Saturday at about 12:30pm after the child was brought in with severe injuries, ABC News reports.
Despite resuscitation attempts by paramedics, he succumbed to his injuries.
A police spokesman said: "He [the father] reversed over the poor child. He didn't see him."
Crime scenes have been established at both the hospital and at a property in South Pambula, on the far south coast of New South Wales.
Police are not expected to lay any charges but are required to investigate such deaths to provide a report to the coroner.
"I don't think anything you could do to the father would change the way he feels unfortunately,' the police spokesman said.
"It's unusual, it's not a death that's caused by natural causes, so that's why we're doing what we're doing."
Karen Wright, a Bega Valley Shire councillor from South Pambula, said: "It is absolutely tragedy and my heart goes out to the family."
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