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'Why are you crying daddy?' Heart-breaking final words of 5-year –old as she died in her father’s arms

Hampshire, England:  A five-year-old girl's last words to her distraught father were 'why are you crying daddy?' as she died of a cardiac arrest brought on by an illness doctors failed to spot, an inquest heard.

Medics sent Ward Alshammary home with a virus, but two days later she was rushed back to hospital when her condition rapidly deteriorated an inquest heard.

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