Baby girl killed by curtains.A BABY girl was strangled to death in her cot after getting tangled up in a curtain cord. Devastated Nigel and Sarah Titcombe found daughter Lucy, who had just turned one, struggling to breathe with the cord around her neck. Paramedics called an air ambulance air ambulance Emergency medicine A helicopter or, less commonly, a fixed wing aircraft, used to evacuate a person who requires immediate medical attention that cannot be provided at his/her current location to rush her to the hospital but doctors pronounced her dead from asphyxiation asphyxiation /as·phyx·i·a·tion/ (as-fix?e-a´shun) suffocation; the stoppage of respiration. Asphyxiation Oxygen starvation of tissues. . Ambulance spokeswoman Janine Bell said: "Although our crew are used to dealing with difficult situations with children, it is traumatic for everyone involved. "They worked very hard to try to save Lucy." The tragedy happened on October 17 in Billing-shurst, West Sussex West Sussex, nonmetropolitan county (1991 pop. 692,800), 768 sq mi (1,990 sq km), S England. A chalk ridge runs from the county's east to west edge. In the south the land flattens into a gentle plain. After early Roman invasions, the Saxons moved across Sussex. . An inquest has opened at West Sussex coroner's court but no date has been set for a full hearing. Police said: "It seems to be a tragic accident.". |
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