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Four-year-old boy dies in farm incident | Four-year-old boy dies in farm incident |
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A four-year-old boy has died in an incident at a farm in Maguiresbridge, County Fermanagh. | A four-year-old boy has died in an incident at a farm in Maguiresbridge, County Fermanagh. |
Police were called to the area at about 20:30 BST on Thursday and the child was pronounced dead at the scene. | |
The Health and Safety Executive (HSENI) is investigating the cause of death, which is understood to have involved farm machinery. | |
The boy's death was the first of a child on a farm in Northern Ireland for almost three years, said the HSENI. | |
There were seven deaths on Northern Ireland farms in 2016 and six the year before, it added. | |
'The community is devastated' | |
The last child to die in a farm fatality was in June 2014, when a boy died in a slurry tank accident near Dunloy, County Antrim. | The last child to die in a farm fatality was in June 2014, when a boy died in a slurry tank accident near Dunloy, County Antrim. |
DUP leader Arlene Foster said the news had shocked the close-knit farming community in Fermanagh. | |
Ulster Unionist MP Tom Elliott said the community would rally around the "very close" family. | |
"The family have lost a son, a grandson and a brother and that's something I'm sure they will find very, very difficult to come to terms with," he said. | |
Former Sinn Féin agriculture minister Michelle Gildernew said the community of Maguiresbridge was "devastated". | Former Sinn Féin agriculture minister Michelle Gildernew said the community of Maguiresbridge was "devastated". |
The Methodist Church in Maguiresbridge is holding a special service at 19:00 BST, inviting people to come together and to pray for the family. | |
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