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Elderly woman found floating face down in River Avon dies in hospital

byDaniel Jae Webb
30 June 2020 • 12.54pm
Woman taken to hospital after being rescued from River Avon in Chippenham

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An elderly woman who was pulled from the River Avon yesterday has died in hopsital.

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Emergency services were called to a report to a person floating face down in the water in Monkton Park at around 8.30am on Monday morning.

She was rescued from the water and treated by South Western Ambulance Service paramedics and specialist critical care medics from Wiltshire Air Ambulance.

She was then taken to Southmead Hospital in Bristol by land ambulance but later died.

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