Five-year-old girl dies after zip wire accident · TheJournal.ie

Alexia suffered severe head injures and went into cardiac arrest.

The tweet published on their account, @MPSMileEnd, reads: “We would like to express our sincerest condolences to the family of Alexia Walenkaki, who tragically died in Mile End Park on Friday”.

Alexia Walenkaki’s mother, who was watching her daughter play, frantically tried to revive the little girl.

She was taken to hospital but was declared dead just over an hour later.

A joint investigation into the cause of Alexia’s death is being carried out by police and the Health and Safety Executive.

The child died at the Royal London in Whitechapel on Friday evening after the accident at Mile End Children’s Play Park in Burdett Road, near the Mile End leisure centre.

Her mother Vida Kwotuah told the Standard: “All of a sudden I see this log falling down and I started screaming”.

Ms Kwotuah said: “She was a happy, loving, sociable girl, very intelligent and very likeable”.

She added: “I keep expecting to walk into a room and see her on the floor playing with her dolls”.

Her school, Stepney Greencoat Church of England Primary School, held a special assembly and prayers for pupils and parents this morning. A post-mortem examination will take place on Wednesday.

A five-year-old girl has died in an accident involving the collapse of a tree to which a zip wire was attached.

Scotland Yard said their investigation will be led by detectives from the homicide and major crime command, due to the complex circumstances surrounding the incident.