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Teen dead after being hit by vehicle in St. Theresa Point

A teenage girl is dead after she was hit by an alleged drunk driver on a Manitoba reserve.

RCMP say the girl, 13, was walking southbound on the main road near St. Theresa Point First Nation’s nursing station when she was hit by a car on Thursday.

The girl was taken to hospital in Winnipeg where she died the next day.

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Police have charged the driver, a 35-year-old woman, with Impaired Operation Causing Death.

A passenger in the car was not hurt.

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