6-year-old girl killed after freak incident during badminton match WHIO TV 7 and WHIO Radio [Video]

A 6-year-old girl died last week following an accident that happened as her siblings were playing badminton, according to police.

Lucy Morgan was watching her siblings play badminton last week while her family was on vacation in Maine when a metal piece of her 10-year-old brother’s racket broke off and struck her in the skull, according to a Maine State Police press release obtained by People.

“We were eating a quick lunch by the lake and the kids decided to try badminton in the front yard,” the girl’s father, Jesse Morgan, who is a pastor, wrote on his blog. “[My wife] Bethany and I were relaxing in the back when we heard screaming.”

When they went to the front yard they found Lucy unresponsive but breathing.

Authorities later learned that “the aluminum shaft of a badminton racket had become dislodged from the wooden handle, causing the shaft to strike the girl in the head, piercing through …