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A two-year-old girl died after falling off a pony when it became spooked during a hunt meeting in Yorkshire, according to locals.
The horrifying incident is said to have happened in front of the girl's family during The Bedale Hunt on Wednesday.
Emergency services were called to the scene but the girl subsequently died as a result of her injuries.
Today villagers told MailOnline how the girl's family witnessed the horrifying incident.
One villager said: 'The timing of the accident chimes with when we heard the hunting horn.
'I understand there were three horses with a toddler and a very young toddler. The young one must have slipped off.'
The horrifying incident is said to have happened in front of the girl's family during The Bedale Hunt on Wednesday. Picture from 2007
The villager added: 'I am sure it is the same family as I saw as I was driving around the lanes in my Land Rover about a week or so ago.
'I passed three people with a very little
