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A boy has died after being hit by a falling tree, Staffordshire Police have said.<\/p>\n
Emergency services, including police, plus paramedics from the West Midlands Ambulance Service and Midlands Air Ambulance, were sent to Holmcroft Road, Stafford, on Saturday at 6.30pm.<\/p>\n
A police spokesperson said, \u201cA teenage boy has sadly died after being injured by a fallen tree in Stafford\u201d.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cTragically, nothing could be done to save the boy. He was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after 7.30pm.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis next of kin have been informed.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Sunday, the force urged people to avoid the area as a large cordon was in place and it is still looking into the incident.<\/p>\n
A post on the Stafford & District Sunday Football League Facebook group said all of their matches on Sunday would hold a one-minute silence before kick-off.<\/p>\n
Prayers were said on Sunday at St Bertelin\u2019s Church Stafford, \u201cfor the young man, for his family, and for all who knew and who loved him\u201d.<\/p>\n
A Facebook post for the church also said it will be open for anyone who wants to light a candle for the boy or to leave flowers.<\/p>\n
Ribbons are also being tied to a wooden cross at the side of the church as a tribute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-565184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}