Washington
Saoirse Kennedy Hill, a granddaughter of former US attorney general Robert F.Kennedy, died from an apparent overdose at her family”s compound, US media reported on Thursday. Kennedy, known as RFK, was assassinated during his run for president in 1968, nearly five years after his brother president John F.Kennedy, or JFK, was shot dead in Dallas. The New York Times reported, citing people close to the family, that emergency responders were on Thursday afternoon called to the Kennedy family compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, where 22-year-old Kennedy Hill lived. She was taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead, the paper reported. “Our hearts are shattered by the loss of our beloved Saoirse,” the Kennedy family said in a statement carried by US media.
