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Terminally ill child euthanised in the Netherlands was one year old, government says

The first terminally ill child to be euthanised in the Netherlands under an expansion of the country’s assisted-dying laws was one year old and is the youngest person in the world to die by euthanasia.

Dutch officials revealed in June that a child had died by euthanasia last year but gave no further details about the age of the infant or the terminal illness.

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