A 6-year-old girl on vacation in Maine was accidentally killed by a broken badminton racket while playing with her brother last week, police said.
The aluminum shaft of the racket came off the handle and hit the girl, identified as Lucy Morgan, in the head Saturday about noon, while she was playing with her older brother. It pierced her skull, Maine State Police said Friday.
Lucy was rushed from the home in Limerick, a town west of Portland, to a nearby hospital, then flown to Maine Medical Center, but she died Wednesday, police said.
The injury was unintentional and an accident, according to police, who wrote in a statement, “The Maine State Police would like to extend their deepest condolences to the Morgan…
