This little eight-year-old girl has died after accidentally hanging herself in her bedroom while practising acrobatics with fabric ribbons.
Layla Eluney Cabrera died at her home in the neighbourhood of 245 Viviendas located in the city of Ushuaia in the southernmost Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego on 25th February.
The young girl was reportedly practising acrobatics with aerial ribbons when she accidentally tangled the fabric around her neck.
Her parents found her hanging by her neck in her bedroom from the fabric and tried to revive the young girl.
According to local reports, the emergency services arrived on the scene and found little Layla’s parents performing CPR on her lifeless body.
Police officers and firefighters on the scene also tried to resuscitate the girl, but to no avail.
The local authorities currently consider the case an accidental death.
Her family said on social media: “It is not goodbye, it is see you soon Laylita. We are going to miss you a lot, Princess.”
The police investigation continues.
Tierra del Fuego (‘Land of Fire’) is the smallest and least populous province in Argentina. It is also the most recent national territory to be given provincial status, which took place in 1990.
The province includes Argentina’s claims to the British Overseas Territories of the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands as well as a segment of Antarctica that partly covers UK and Chilean claims on that continent.
