Leaping sturgeon kills child in Florida

A leaping sturgeon struck and killed a five-year-old girl boating with her family on a river in Florida, and a similar incident injured two adults in a different part of the state, wildlife officials said.

Jaylon Rippy was boating with her family on the Suwannee River in northwest Florida near Fanning Springs when the jumping fish injured the young girl along with her mother and her nine-year-old brother, the state Fish and Wildlife Commission said.

The family members, who were from nearby Trenton, were airlifted to a hospital in Gainesville but the girl did not survive. The conditions of the girl’s mother and brother were not clear.