A girl dressed as ‘Catrina’ stands at the San Gregorio cemetery during Day of the Dead festivities on the outskirts of Mexico City, late Saturday, Nov. 1, 2015. In a tradition that coincides with All Saints Day and All Souls Day on Nov. 1 and 2, families decorate the graves of departed relatives with marigolds and candles, and spend the night in the cemetery, eating and drinking as they keep company with their deceased loved ones. AP
MEXICO CITY, Mexico — A 3-year-old girl is dead in north-central Mexico after a gravestone collapsed on top of her during Mexico’s traditional Day of the Dead celebrations.
Mexican families often visit their relatives’ graves during the Nov. 1-2 holiday, to clean the gravesites and place fresh flowers or food nearby.
Ana Mariela Gutierrez Gasca went to the cemetery in the town of Juventino Rosas, Guanajuato with her mother.
The state prosecutors’ office said Tuesday the little girl was playing among the gravestones. When she tried to climb one headstone, it toppled over onto her, compressing her chest and killing her.