Man dies after being found under tree branch in Burrillville

BURRILLVILLE, R.I. (WPRI) — A 63-year-old man from Massachusetts died after he was discovered on a Burrillville hiking trail with a sizeable tree branch on top of him Friday afternoon.

Burrillville police said the man was hiking on Nipmuc Trail . The victim’s family went looking for him after he didn’t return home and found him around 4:30 p.m. unconscious on the trail under a branch.

High winds across the region on Friday knocked out power, uprooted trees and even blew a roof off of a building…

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