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Teenager killed when tree hits caravan
Jul 12, 2009, 6:41 GMT
Wellington - A New Zealander and his two children were found safe and well Sunday after being lost in a forest for two nights during a storm that killed a teenage girl when a tree fell on the caravan where she slept.
Police said it was a miracle George Barber, 40, his deaf daughter, Trinity, 13, and asthmatic son, George junior, 6, survived after becoming disoriented Friday on what was supposed to be a day trip hunting pigs.
The storm which battered Northland province with winds gusting to 130 kilometres an hour brought down a tree that killed 15-year-old Danielle Anne Finlayson as she lay sleeping in a caravan in the garden of her home near Whangarei.
The girl's family was asleep inside the house in the early hours of Sunday and police said she was dead before her father, who heard the tree fall, could free her.
The storm brought widespread flooding to the region and about 1,000 homes were blacked out by power cuts.
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