WYOMING – An 8-year-old girl plunged some 550 feet (168 meters) to her death at Yellowstone National Park on Sunday after stepping off a trail overlooking a 1,200-foot (366-m) canyon and losing her footing, a park official said on Monday.

The victim was  identified by park officials as Zahra Allahyari of Poway, California. 

Zahra and her family had been touring the park’s Brink of the Lower Falls trail Sunday when she reportedly stepped off the trail, losing her footing two-thirds of the way down the trail, the U.S. National Park Service confirmed.

Park crews on Sunday rappelled from a helicopter to retrieve her body from where the child had fallen against a rocky outcropping above the floor of the colorful canyon, officials said.

It was the second such recovery in two days after tourists suffered fatal accidents at Yellowstone. A swift water rescue team on Saturday extracted the body of a seasonal hotel worker who was swept away one week ago while tubing the powerful Yellowstone River, where rafting is banned because of safety concerns.

The body of Darien Latty, 22, of Demorest, Georgia, was found submerged Saturday where it had been pinned by a boulder about a quarter of a mile (400 m) from the confluence of the Lamar and Yellowstone rivers in the northeastern part of the park.

Just a handful of the roughly 3 million annual visitors die by accident at a park that spans parts of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. 

“Both of these incidents remind us of the need to be vigilant of your personal situation and that of those around you when visiting a wild place like Yellowstone.”