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Monday, April 13
The Indiana Daily Student

7-year-old killed in fallen log accident

A 7-year-old boy died Saturday from injuries caused by a log rolling off a brush pile, just a few miles outside Bloomington. \nAfter the Owen County Sheriff's Department received the emergency call, dispatchers ushered an ambulance to the scene -- a wooded area between Bloomington and Spencer, Ind. \n"The kid was playing on an old log pile," said Owen County Sheriff Harley Melton. "From what I understand, the log rolled over the child." \nSpencer Emergency Medical Services Director Chris Lunsford said when his crew arrived, the child was no longer breathing and did not have a pulse. \nBoth the boy's mother and father were with him at the time of the incident, rescuers said. \n"His mother was doing CPR already, and we life-lined him to Riley Hospital (for Children in Indianapolis)," Lunsford said. \nEMS Assistant Director Mike Mallow would not comment on the specific injuries the boy suffered or whether the crew was ever able to resuscitate him. \nA helicopter transported the boy from the Spencer area to the hospital where he later died.

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