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Police release name of teen girl killed in Omarama horse riding accident

October 5, 2019
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Police have released the name of a 13-year-old girl killed in an Omarama horse riding accident yesterday.

She was Eliza-Jayne Coetzee of Omarama, South Canterbury.

Police say she died after falling off a horse yesterday afternoon.

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