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Adriane Reardon and crime reporter Lia Harris

95yo great-grandmother in hospital after being tasered by police at Cooma aged care home

Clare Nowland, then aged 80, celebrating after skydiving for her birthday.  (ABC News)

A great-grandmother with dementia is fighting for life in hospital after being tasered by police at her nursing home in the NSW Snowy Mountains.

Clare Nowland, 95, was home in Yallambee Lodge in Cooma when staff called NSW Police to the facility on Wednesday.

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