Nine-year-old girl dies after falling off a horse

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A nine-year-old girl has died after falling off a horse.

The schoolgirl suffered severe injuries while she was out riding at an event in Miserden, near Shroud in Cheltenham on Saturday.

She was airlifted to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital where she later died. The girl's death is not being treated as suspicious, police said.