Drama in Hainaut: a five-year-old child fatally crushed by a tree

The emergency workers might do nothing to save a child who had just been crushed by a tree. The five-year-old boy was killed instantly.

In a property on Chemin du Bois Périer, several people were cutting down a set of poplars on Saturday. For a reason that the police investigation will have to try to determine, during the felling of the last of the trees, it fell on the victim who was there with members of his family.