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Woman Dies When Hijab Scarf Gets Tangled In Go Cart

by | 9th, April 2010

IN Post Stephens, Australia, a young woman died after her hijab scarf became entwined in the working of a go kart she was driving.

Mariam died at Newcastle’s John Hunter Hospital

Detective Inspector Peter Fox of Port Stephens says:

“[It appears] the scarf was pulled across her throat … from one side of the body to the other side.”

In other news:

In December, an 18-year-old girl in Cambridge, England, died after her scarf got stuck in a go-kart engine and strangled her.

Or as the Mail puts it:

Muslim woman strangled by her burkha in freak go-kart accident

The point being?



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