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A 6-year-old girl died on Wednesday after she was accidentally struck in the head by a broken badminton racket while on a family vacation in Maine, Maine State Police said, according to NBC News. The girl, identified as Lucy Morgan, was playing with her older brother in the front yard of a cottage in Limerick, Maine, on June 1 when the aluminum shaft of the badminton racket came off of the wooden handle and pierced her skull, according to police and the girl's father.
He wrote that he and his wife, Bethany, were eating lunch in the back of the cottage where they were vacationing from Stockholm, New Jersey, when they heard screaming from the front of the residence. 'Due to a freak accident with a racquet that broke on a downward swing, a sharp piece had entered Lucy’s skull while she was sitting on the sideline and caused catastrophic injury,' he wrote. 'She was still breathing but unresponsive as I held her with Bethany crying out to God.
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