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| Mile End Park: Girl, five, killed in tree collapse | |
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| A five-year-old girl was killed in an accident involving the collapse of a tree to which a zip wire was attached, police have said. | |
| The girl, named locally as Alexia Walenkaki, was playing in Mile End Park, east London, on Friday evening when it happened. | |
| She went into cardiac arrest and died in hospital about an hour after the accident. | |
| Police and the Health and Safety Executive are investigating the death. | |
| Post-mortem tests are due to take place on Wednesday. | |
| The park remains closed, but friends and family and other park users have been leaving floral tributes to Alexia. | |
| One tribute reads: "Dear Alexia, you were my best friend in the whole wide world. When I fell over you would pick me up. You were good at football, you are indeed my best friend, Corrine." | |
| Alexia's mother was watching her daughter playing on a swing and screamed out her child's name when the branch collapsed, witnesses said. |