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Farm Accident Kills Young Kansas Girl

dickinson county sheriff patchA farming accident claimed the life of a 5-year-old Kansas girl.

Dickinson County Sheriff Gareth Hoffman said emergency crews were called to a bean field near Abilene around 5:00p.m. Wednesday evening to the report of a farming accident..

Sheriff Hoffman said Brian Debenham and his daughter Brooklyn Debenham were in the cab of an enclosed combine cutting soybeans.

Brian Debenham said he hit a bump, and the girl fell through the front glass of the combine and fell onto the header.

The accident occurred about 10 miles north and east of Abilene.

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