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Provincial constabulary says 2 youths had gone for a locomotion connected the mill tract and climbed to the apical of a silo erstwhile the miss fell wrong the factual and metallic operation and got trapped inside.
15-year-old miss climbed up silo and fell down, says provincial police
The Canadian Press
· Posted: Apr 12, 2025 1:05 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago
Quebec provincial constabulary accidental a 15-year-old miss has died aft a fall at the tract of a shuttered mill successful Shawinigan, northeast of Montreal.
One of the girl's relatives alerted exigency services astir 8:30 p.m. connected Friday aft the unfortunate fell into a silo astatine the erstwhile Belgo factory, a insubstantial mill that has been closed since 2008.
Sgt. Frédéric Deshaies says 2 youths had gone for a locomotion connected the mill tract and climbed to the apical of a silo erstwhile the miss fell wrong the factual and metallic operation and got trapped inside.
Local firefighters successful Shawinigan, astir 165 kilometres from Montreal, called their counterparts successful adjacent Trois-Rivières for a confined abstraction rescue operation.
The young unfortunate was located and freed astatine astir 4:40 a.m. Saturday and taken to hospital, wherever she was pronounced dead.
A coroner volition analyse her death. The teen accompanying her was not injured.
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