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Boy dies in farm accidentQUINTER, Kan. (AP)--A northwest Kansas sheriff calls the death of a little boy on his family's farm a tragic accident. Three-year-old Ethan Flora was struck and killed by a tire on a center pivot irrigation system his father was moving near a well outside Quinter. Gove County Sheriff Allan Weber told The Salina Journal the father took Ethan to work with him Aug. 17 and told him to stay in the back of the pickup truck. But the little boy was curious about the pivot and got out several times for a closer look. The father was advancing the center pivot mechanically, then stopped to pick up tools. When he looked up, the sheriff says, Ethan was caught under the tire. The father rushed his son to Gove County Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
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