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Police probe girl's campsite death
11:11am Friday 6th April 2012 in National News © Press Association 2013
A young girl has died after being taken to hospital from a Hampshire campsite
Two people have been arrested following the death of a six-year-old girl who was taken to hospital from a campsite, police said.
Paramedics were called to the Holmsley campsite, in Bransgore, in Hampshire, just after midnight.
A spokesman for South Central Ambulance Service said the girl was "fitting and not breathing".
He went on: "A double-manned ambulance was sent with an emergency care practitioner.
"The child went into cardiac arrest and adrenalin was administered."
She was taken to Southampton General Hospital where she was later pronounced dead.
Speaking at the scene, Sergeant Heather McNicol, from Hampshire Police, said: "Overnight we were called to Holmsley campsite after the death of a six-year-old girl. Police are treating the death as possibly suspicious because of the age of the little girl. Two people have been arrested."
Officers were called to the scene in the early hours of this morning where they found paramedics battling to save the child.
"A 30-year-old man and a 40-year-old woman, both from Gosport, have been arrested on suspicion of murder," police said in a statement. They pair remained in custody.
The campsite confirmed that some guests were still at the site as police continued their investigation. Holmsley Caravan Park and Campsite has 600 pitches based on the land of a Second World War airfield on the edge of the New Forest.
