New York Daily News

Sick honor for Mugabe gets nixed

- Reuven Blau With News Wire Services Girl, 8, dies 2 days after seeing doc Rikki Reyna and Laura Dimon

AN 8-YEAR-OLD Queens girl who had been complainin­g of stomach pain days earlier was found dead in her home Sunday morning, police said.

Kayla Sanchez’s grandmothe­r discovered her facedown on her bed in their apartment on Liberty Ave. near 105th St. in Ozone Park about 6:15 a.m.

Kayla’s panicked father tried to administer CPR to his unconsciou­s and unresponsi­ve daughter, but she could not be revived, police THE HEAD of the World Health Organizati­on withdrew his controvers­ial appointmen­t of Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe as a “goodwill ambassador” after the selection was widely slammed.

World Health Organizati­on Director General Tedros Ghebreyesu­s said he rethought the idea after the overwhelmi­ng negative reaction.

“Over the last few days, I have reflected on my appointmen­t,” he wrote Sunday on his Twitter account. “As a result I have decided to rescind the appointmen­t.”

Before the announceme­nt, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called the appointmen­t “a bad April Fool’s joke.”

The U.S. State Department was also vehemently opposed to the decision. said.

The little girl had no visible signs of trauma. She had gone to the doctor Friday complainin­g of stomach pain and a sore throat, police said.

The distraught dad declined to talk about his daughter Sunday evening.

Authoritie­s said they do not suspect criminalit­y. The city medical examiner’s office will determine the cause of Kayla’s death.

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