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Girl killed by falling tree

Updated: Thursday, 25 Jun 2009, 6:47 AM EDT
Published : Thursday, 25 Jun 2009, 6:47 AM EDT

    New Fairfield (AP) - Connecticut police say a 13-year-old girl has died after a large tree fell on her during a party at a home on the Danbury-New Fairfield town line.

    Police say Catherine Burke was at a party to celebrate the end of the school year at her home on Smoke Hill Drive Wednesday afternoon when a dead 50-foot tree fell over.

    Police say the seventh-grade New Fairfield Middle School student was killed and another girl suffered a broken leg when the dead tree fell on them.

    Neighbors say the family held an end-of-school-year party for their daughter and her friends every year.

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    Information from: The News-Times

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