A five-month-old Australian baby has died after suffering critical injuries when her mother fell attempting to evade a magpie attack. On Aug. 8, Baby Mia was with her mother and father in Glindemann Park in the suburb of Holland Park, Brisbane, when they were “swooped” by a magpie. The mother ducked and fell, injuring the child, while the father called emergency services after. Mia was rushed to Queensland Children’s Hospital where she died a day later. Multiple ambulance teams attended the scene including a medical director. One paramedic told the ABC, “[The baby] was presenting with quite a serious head injury from the incident, and she received the absolute best pre-hospital care in a really efficient and timely manner, which allowed us to get her to Queensland Children’s Hospital as quickly as possible.” The magpie is known in the neighbourhood for aggressively swooping and defending its territory, and complaints had …
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