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MAUI

Girl, 7, injured by burial in sand

A 7-year-old Maui girl was in critical condition yesterday after being accidentally buried under three feet of sand on Saturday.

Police said they were called to Hamoa Beach in Hana at 6:15 p.m. for a child who was not breathing.

Firefighters performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

They said the girl and several other children had dug a tunnel in the sand and it collapsed while she was inside.

She was taken by ambulance to Hana Medical Center and later flown to Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children.

A nursing supervisor said the girl remained in the intensive care unit in critical condition yesterday.

BIG ISLAND

Big Island man killed in fall

A 27-year old Kailua, Kona, man was killed yesterday at Honokoa Gulch in South Kohala in what police believe may have been a hunting accident.

A coroner's inquest has been requested in the death of Joshua Woodward.

Firefighters and police were called to the gulch where Woodward had fallen nearly 200 feet yesterday morning. He was dead at the scene, and a helicopter recovered the body. An autopsy will be conducted. Police are investigating.