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YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK -- Authorities have identified a young girl who died Sunday morning after falling into the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River.
Park officials said the victim is Zahra Allahyari, 8, of Poway, California.
We're told Allahyari and family members had parked their vehicle in a trailhead parking area along the North Rim Drive, a short scenic route off the park's Grand Loop Road near Canyon Village.
The group was about two-thirds of the way down the trail to the Brink of the Lower Falls observation platform when the 8-year-old girl reportedly stepped off the trail and lost her footing. She fell approximately 550 feet into the canyon.
Park personnel retrieved her body around noon Sunday.
This is the third accidental death in Yellowstone National Park in 2014.
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