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  A four-year-old boy was killed instantly when a heavy garden post collapsed on top of him, an inquest heard.   Leopold Mercer was swinging on an iron gate in his garden with a friend after football training when tragedy struck at their home in Hanbury, Worcestershire on September 18.   His parents, university professors Eva Frickel and Jason Mercer, heard the other child scream their son's name and they instantly knew something was wrong, Worcestershire Coroner's Court was told.   The couple tried to resuscitate Leopold before emergency crews arrived.   After 42 minutes of CPR, West Midlands Ambulance Service paramedics and Midlands Air Ambulance doctors declared Leopold dead at the scene.   A post-mortem examination found Leopold died due to a traumatic head and neck injury.   Dr Frickel described to the court how she'd just driven the two boys back from Sunday football training when they got out of the car and were hanging on an iron gate...

  A boy has been rescued from the grasp of a hungry 10ft python preparing to swallow him whole in Australia.   Beau Blake, 5, was enjoying a swim at home in Byron Bay, New South Wales on Thursday, Nov. 24, when the python struck.   He was bitten, constricted and dragged into a swimming pool by the monster snake, which was about three times the boy's size.   Pythons squeeze their prey to death in a couple of minutes before swallowing victims whole.   Luckily Beau was freed after a dramatic rescue effort by his 76-year-old grandfather Allan, who pulled the boy from the pool before dad Ben prised the snake off his son's leg.   "Beau was just walking around the edge of the pool... and I believe the python was sort of sitting there waiting for a victim to come along... and Beau was it," Ben told Melbourne radio station 3AW.   "I saw a big black shadow come out of the bush and before they hit the bottom, it was completely wrapped around his leg... ...