A coroner has launched an investigation into an eight-year-old's death after she was struck by a falling tree.

Emergency services, including the air ambulance, were sent to Parsonage Lane , Bobbing, near Sittingbourne , last Friday shortly after noon.

Maisy Mayne, of Clarendon Close, Sittingbourne, was pronounced dead while another child, also thought to be a girl, was taken to King's College Hospital in London.

Earlier this week floral tributes were left near to where the tragedy had happened.

The inquest, which opened at County Hall, Maidstone, this morning, heard Maisy died from a traumatic head injury from a tree branch falling on her.

The hearing was adjourned until November 17 at Maidstone's Archbishop's Palace.

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