Inquest told how refugee child died on flight to New York

An inquest has found that a child died of bronchial pneumonia on board a New York-bound flight that was forced to make an emergency landing at Shannon airport last April, according to the Irish Times newspaper.

Clare county coroner Isobel O’Dea found the cause of death of Lemuna Armadan Osman, from Eritrea, on April 22nd was brought about by bronchial pneumonia with the contributory factor of the toddler’s low weight and height.

Ms O’Dea’s findings were consistent with the cause of death in the postmortem carried out by Assistant State Pathologist Dr Margaret Bolster.