GIRL, 10, CHOKES TO DEATH ON BALLOON; Horror at birthday party.Byline: VICTORIA McMAHON A GIRL of 10 died at a pal's birthday party after she choked on a balloon in a freak accident, it emerged yesterday. Clarice Harron was blowing up a balloon at a friend's 11th birthday party on Saturday when it got stuck in her throat, choking her to death. The schoolgirl from Castlederg, Co Tyrone, was just two days away from celebrating her own 11th birthday. Stunned stun tr.v. stunned, stun·ning, stuns 1. To daze or render senseless, by or as if by a blow. 2. To overwhelm or daze with a loud noise. 3. youngsters and parents watched in horror as a doctor, who lived nearby, rushed to the scene to try and save the Edwards Primary School girl. Despite arriving at the community centre where the birthday party was being held just minutes after the accident, the doctor was unable to revive the little girl. Clarice's distraught mother Dreena ran to the birthday party and accompanied her youngest child in the ambulance as she was taken to Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry. Frantic attempts by a team of medics Med´ics n. 1. Science of medicine. there could not resuscitate re·sus·ci·tate v. To restore consciousness, vigor, or life to. Clarice. Her grief-stricken parents Gerald and Dreena and her three brothers and sister were yesterday being comforted by family and friends. Strabane UUP Uup, symbol for the element ununpentium. councillor and family friend Derek Hussey Derek Robert Hussey (b. 12 September 1948, Padstow, Cornwall, UK) is a Ulster Unionist politician from Northern Ireland Hussey was educated at Omagh Model School, Omagh Academy and Stranmillis College, Belfast. He previously was a teacher at Castlederg High School. said: "She was a happy-go-lucky, bubbly, young cuddy cud·dy 1 n. pl. cud·dies 1. Nautical A small cabin or the cook's galley on a ship. 2. A small room, cupboard, or closet. [Origin unknown. . "The family are totally devastated dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. . I've been to the house twice today and they don't blame anyone. "They are just devastated - this was a freak accident. The Harron family's minister, Reverend Alan Peek, said the whole community is grieving but will help garage worker Gerald and his shop assistant wife through the ordeal. He added: "Clarice was a bubbly, happy 10-year-old with an infectious smile. "Her death will leave a gap in the lives of so many people." "The community is in disbelief at the loss of a young girl on the threshold of making her own way in the world." CAPTION(S): TRAGIC Clarice Harron, 10, who died on Saturday |
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