The death toll of a jumping castle tragedy in Devonport has climbed to six, after police confirmed another child had succumbed to their injuries at Royal Hobart Hospital on Sunday
The death toll of a jumping castle tragedy in Tasmania’s north has climbed to six, after police confirmed another child had succumbed to their injuries at Royal Hobart Hospital on Sunday.
With the permission of the families, police on Friday named the five other children who died in the incident as Addison Stewart, 11, Zane Mellor, 12, Jye Sheehan, 12, Jalailah Jayne-Maree Jones, 12 and Peter Dodt, 12.understands the parents of one of the children in hospital were comforted by a local priest after being approached by doctors about turning off their child’s life support at the weekend. It is unclear whether it is the same child.
Among the latest tributes laid at the memorial was a model of a classroom attended by about a dozen teddy bears dressed in the Hillcrest Primary School uniform.Inside the classroom, five teddy bears representing children killed in the tragedy, could be seen nestled among the arms of a larger bear.
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