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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Erin Keller

Boy, 11, killed by falling tree at Scout camp in Michigan

An 11-year-old Illinois boy died Thursday after a tree fell on him while he was hiking at a Scouting America summer camp in Michigan - (Google Maps)

An 11-year-old boy died Thursday after a tree fell on him while he was hiking a trail at a Scouting America, previously known as the Boy Scouts of America, summer camp in Michigan.

The boy, who has not been publicly named but was from River Forest, Illinois, was walking through a wooded trail at the Owasippe Scout Reservation in Twin Lake when the tree fell and struck him shortly after 5 p.m., the Muskegon County Sheriff’s Office said, per ABC 7 Chicago and WGN-TV.

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