An 11-year-old girl named Sarah died on Saturday afternoon after a gate fell on top of her at a home in Puerto Rico, the director of the Manatí Municipal Office for Emergency Management (OMME), Juan Carlos Rodríguez, confirmed to NotiCentro. The residence is in the Linda Mar neighborhood, Mar Chiquita sector, on Blanca Díaz Street in the town of Manatí.
According to preliminary information from the investigation, the girl was in the patio area because she had gone out to collect the mail when, for reasons not yet determined, the gate came loose and fell on her. Police later reported in a statement that the girl suffered a wound to the back of her head. A friend of the girl’s mother lamented the incident on her Facebook page.