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A TODDLER died from bronchial pneumonia on board a flight that was forced to make an emergency landing at Shannon Airport earlier this year, an inquest in Ennis has heard. Two-year-old Lemuna Armadan Osman, from Eritrea, fell ill on a
Lufthansa flight between Frankfurt and New York, on April 22 last. She was travelling with her family to be- gin a new life in the US under a re- patriation programme, when she be- came gravely ill and passed away. The inquest into her death was opened at the time and adjourned un- til last week, when details of the post
mortem examination into her death were revealed.
Assistant State Pathologist Dr Mar- garet Bolster told Ennis Coroner’s Court that the cause of death was bronchial pneumonia involving most of one of her lungs. She said the tod- dler had height and weight below nor- mal. She noted that the girl had been
in hospital with a cough, four days before she took the flight to the US. Dr Bolster also said there was evi- dence of female circumcision on the child’s body.
She paid tribute to the “amazing amount” of people who had assisted Lemuna’s family, on arrival at Shan- non in April.