A young woman has died after being hit by a falling branch in a park while walking with a child, it is understood.
The incident happened near the Buncer Lane entrance of Blackburn's Witton Country Park, Lancashire, just after 8.30pm last night.
The woman was reportedly walking with a child when the tragedy took place.
Emergency services rushed to the scene and found the woman, in her 30s, unresponsive. She was pronounced dead at the scene shortly afterwards.
Blackburn with Darwen Council, which owns the 480-acre park, felled the beech tree from which the branch fell after the incident.
