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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Ima Caldwell and Daisy Dumas

Family of Australian woman who died after Japanese ski lift accident remember their ‘beautiful girl’

Brooke Day, the 22-year-old snowboarder from Queensland, Australia who died in a ski lift accident in Japan
Queensland woman Brooke Day, 22, is thought to have suffered a cardiac arrest after being dragged along the snow and suspended mid-air by a ski lift in Japan Photograph: Supplied

The family of an Australian woman who died in a ski lift accident in Japan have remembered their “beautiful girl” as someone who kept others safe as tributes pour in for the 22-year-old “vibrant spirit”.

The Queensland snowboarder Brooke Day sustained critical injuries on Friday after her backpack was caught in a ski lift at Tsugaike Mountain resort in Otari, near Nagano.

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