Ohio congressman's niece killed during South Korea Halloween stampede
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The niece of Rep. Brad Wenstrup from Ohio was among the more than 150 people killed during a deadly Halloween stampede in South Korea over the weekend.
"Monica and I, and our entire family, are grieving the loss of our niece Anne Marie Gieske. She was a gift from God to our family," the congressman said in a statement. "We loved her so much." Haris Alic is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital covering Congress.
Gieske, a nursing student at the University of Kentucky, was studying abroad in South Korea.
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