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Cruise ship turns round after child falls down the stairs
A Carnival cruise ship was forced to turn round back to Galveston after a toddler fell down a flight of stairs.
A family was posing for photos by the stair rail when a three-year-old girl fell from the 14th deck to the 12th deck and was rushed to the ship’s medical center for evaluation.
Then a decision was made to return to port to transport the girl to hospital.
The Carnival Liberty had departed just hours earlier on Monday.
The girl was initially knocked unconscious but a Carnival spokesperson said she was talking and alert when taken off the ship.
The ship has since resumed sailing on a five-night Western Caribbean cruise.
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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