Girl killed by tractor tyre

The annual Easter Sunday celebrations in Dungloe, Co Donegal, were called off yesterday following the death of a seven-year-old…

The annual Easter Sunday celebrations in Dungloe, Co Donegal, were called off yesterday following the death of a seven-year-old girl in a freak accident. Melissa Greene, from the town's Mill Road, died after a large tractor tyre fell on her while she was playing in the back yard of her home with an older sister. She was taken by ambulance to Letterkenny General Hospital, where she died a short time later.