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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Jon Macpherson & Ashlie Blakey

'Beautiful' mum, 23, leaves behind baby daughter after being killed by train

A 'beautiful' mum who died after being hit by a train leaves behind a nine-month old daughter, her heartbroken family said.

Loved ones have named Kiena Dawes as the woman who was hit by a train near Garstang on the Preston to Lancaster line on Friday afternoon. Tributes have poured in for the 23-year-old who was tragically pronounced dead at the scene by the emergency services.

Her brother Kynan Dawes said she 'was in such a bad place in her head' and 'took the decision to end what was an awful battle in her life', Lancs Live reports. Kiena, who worked as a hairdresser in Fleetwood, leaves her nine-month-old daughter Marnie Blu Dawes.

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