Child(6) killed in Armagh tractor accident

A six-year-old girl has died in an accident on a farm in Northern Ireland.

A six-year-old girl has died in an accident on a farm in Northern Ireland.

The child was the passenger in a tractor which crashed at Tartaraghan Road in Portadown, County Armagh.

No other vehicles were involved in the accident, which happened yesterday.

A Police Service of Northern Ireland spokeswoman said the child's family had asked that her name should not be disclosed.

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