Girl, 9, critically hurt as tree falls at Pitt Town school

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An 8-year-old girl has died after being hit by a falling tree branch at Pitt Town Public School in Sydney's north-west on Friday. Nine News.

Just seconds after the school bell sounded and children were crossing the Pitt Town Public School playground to retrieve their lunch from their bags, there was a snap and a loud thud.

A large branch from a 50-year-old gum tree fell and landed on top of three students and a teacher on Friday afternoon at the small school in semi-rural north-western Sydney.

Eight year-old Bridget Wright, a horse lover and high-achieving year 4 student, was pinned beneath a limb of the towering tree and died after being rushed to Westmead Hospital.

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