Nine-year-old boy dead after crash in mid Canterbury

A 9-year-old boy has died following a crash at Ashburton Lakes in mid Canterbury.

A vehicle crashed into the Clyde riverbed near Erewhen Station Hut on Sunday morning.

Two other people were also injured, police said in a statement. The serious crash unit has examined the scene.

More information will be released when it becomes available, the statement said.

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