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Boy, 6, found hanged in bedroom

2007-07-16 06:21:05

Map showing Walmersley Road

A six-year-old boy has died after his mother found him hanged in an apparent

accident with a skipping rope.

Mason Jones was found in an upstairs bedroom of the house on Walmersley Road in

Bury, Greater Manchester.

He was taken to Bury's Fairfield Hospital but doctors were unable to save him

and he died soon afterwards.

It is thought he had been playing with his sister. Special prayers have been

said at the family's parish church, St Joseph's RC Church.

An investigation into Mason's death on Friday was launched but there were not

found to be any suspicious circumstances.

The case has now been passed to the coroner.

Mason was a pupil at St Joseph and St Bede Primary in Bury.

Police said the incident was being treated as "a tragic, tragic accident".

A spokesman added: "It seems as though the children were playing a game which

went wrong.

"The family are extremely traumatised by this."