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Baby loses battle for life after Thames fall

A baby girl who initially survived a fall into the Thames has died, police said on Thursday.

Posted: Thursday, June 26, 2008, 8:55 (BST)
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A baby girl who initially survived a fall into the Thames has died, police said on Thursday.

The 10-month-old toddler fell into the river at Goring, Oxfordshire, on Wednesday morning.

Despite at first being thought dead, doctors at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford later discovered a faint heartbeat.

Attempts to keep her alive though failed, and she was pronounced dead on Wednesday evening, Thames Valley police said.

Officers were called to the riverbank at about 9:45 a.m. following reports the child had gone into the river, and she was airlifted to hospital.

The girl's mother and another child, who were on the river bank at the time, were also taken to hospital as a precautionary measure.



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