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| Tuxford death of girl, 6, prompts police probe | Tuxford death of girl, 6, prompts police probe |
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| A six-year-old girl has died after she was found unresponsive in a village in Nottinghamshire. | A six-year-old girl has died after she was found unresponsive in a village in Nottinghamshire. |
| The girl was discovered in a house on Lincoln Road in Tuxford, near Newark, at about 15:00 GMT on Monday. | |
| The child was taken by ambulance to Sheffield Children's Hospital, where she was later pronounced dead. | |
| Nottinghamshire Police said its investigation into her death was "ongoing". | |
| One woman, who lives nearby, said her husband saw a child being carried out on a stretcher and taken away in an ambulance. | |
| She said he also saw a woman being driven away in a police car. | |
| 'Bit scary' | |
| "The first thing we knew was the police turning up and the helicopter presence, and there were lots of ambulances," she said. | |
| "The police photographers were photographing late into the evening because we could see the flashes going off." | |
| She said she only found out the girl had died when she read a news story. | |
| "My husband texted me and said 'this is what happened' and we were shocked. | |
| "It seems a bit scary. My husband said the lady came out saying 'Is she going to be OK?' and she was taken away in a police car after the stretcher was taken away." | |
| At the scene: Caroline Lowbridge, BBC News | |
| I'm in Lincoln Road in Tuxford where a six-year-old girl was found unresponsive on Monday afternoon and later died. | |
| The house is on the corner of Landa Grove. | |
| A neighbour told me she has seen a mother and older girl living at the house, but had never seen a six-year-old girl or a father living there. | |
| "I believe the older girl goes to Tuxford Academy, but I didn't know the six-year-old existed," she said. | |
| The front garden is taped off and there's a police car parked outside with a PCSO inside, who told me that the house is currently empty. |