A young girl was reportedly practicing with aerial ribbons when she accidentally tangled the fabric around her neck.
Layla Eluney Cabrera, 8, from the city of Ushuaia in the southernmost Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego, has died after accidentally hanging herself with fabric ribbons.
The young girl was reportedly practicing acrobatics with aerial ribbons when she accidentally tangled the fabric around her neck.
Her parents found her in her bedroom at the family home in the 245 Viviendas neighborhood hanging by her neck from the fabric and they tried to revive the young girl.
According to local reports, the emergency services arrived on the scene and found Layla’s parents attempting to perform CPR on her lifeless body.
Police officers and firefighters at the scene of the tragedy also tried to resuscitate the girl but were unable to do so. Local authorities are currently considering the case as accidental death, with a police investigation currently ongoing.
Aerial silks, also known as aerial contortion, aerial ribbons, aerial tissues, fabric, ribbon, or tissu, is a type of performance in which one or more artists perform aerial acrobatics while hanging from a fabric. The fabric may be hung as two pieces, or a single piece, folded to make a loop, classified as hammock silks.
Performers climb the suspended fabric without the use of safety lines and rely only on their training and skill to ensure safety. They use the fabric to wrap, suspend, drop, swing, and spiral their bodies into and out of various positions.
Aerial silks may be used to fly through the air, striking poses and figures while flying. Some performers use dried or spray rosin on their hands and feet to increase the friction and grip on the fabric. The three main categories of tricks are climbs, wraps, and drops.
Her heartbroken family posted on social media, saying: “It is not goodbye, it is see you soon Laylita. We are going to miss you a lot, Princess.”
Ushuaia is a small, close-knit city on the southern tip of the South American continent, although popular with tourists in the summer season; harsh weather can see the local population isolated in the winter months.
Tierra del Fuego, also known as “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 the UK and Chilean claims on that continent.
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