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A six-year-old Tasmanian boy has accidentally hanged himself after getting entangled in a clothes line while jumping on a trampoline.
Police said the boy was using a trampoline placed under a clothes line in the backyard of his New Norfolk home, north west of Hobart, about 11.30am on Saturday.
As he jumped, the strap of his bicycle helmet got caught on the nylon rope of the clothes line and tightened around his neck.
The clothes line appeared to have swung away from the trampoline, leaving the boy suspended and unable to free himself, police said.
Attempts to resuscitate him were unsuccessful and he died at the scene.
