Terrible drama this weekend in Leuze-en-Hainaut, Belgium, a few kilometers from the French border. A five-year-old boy died in a tragic accident, several Belgian media report, including The future.
People were cutting down cottonwoods on their property and the last tree fell on the boy.
“Emergency services intervened but could not do anything to save the child,” says SudInfo.
“A very complicated situation”
“It is a tragedy, there are no other words, and it also falls on people who worked hard to improve the situation of their farm,” the burgomaster (mayor) of Leuze-en-Hainaut, Lucien Rawart, was moved.
“The police social worker did everything she could, on the spot, to help these people, but it’s a very complicated situation,” she said.
The authorities have opened an investigation to establish the circumstances of the tragedy.
Source: BFM TV
