A nine-year-old girl has died during a flight to Germany after a sudden emergency which sparked desperate attempts to save her life.
The child was a passenger on a Lufthansa Airbus jet flying from Shanghai to Munich when she stopped breathing.
Flight LH727 diverted to Yemelyanovo International Airport in Krasnoyark, Russia for an emergency landing to provide urgent medical care.
However, despite desperate attempts by medics to resuscitate her, she was pronounced dead shortly after the plane grounded, according to the TASS news agency.
The girl’s identity has not been released.
A spokesperson for the West Siberian department of Russia’s Investigative Committee told TASS: “She was an Italian citizen, an ethnic Chinese.
“The child was not breathing and had no pulse. The doctors tried to bring her back to life but to no avail.”
The plane touched down in Russia at 1.22am Moscow time.
