Woman Dies on Closed Hiking Trail in Yosemite National Park

Woman Dies on Closed Hiking Trail in Yosemite National Park
In this Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018 file photo, an unidentified couple gets married at Taft Point, upper left, in California's Yosemite National Park. A Northern California coroner says a young couple from India was intoxicated when the pair fell to their deaths from the scenic overlook in Yosemite. Autopsy reports provided by the Mariposa County sheriff's department Friday, Jan. 18, 2019 concluded that 30-year-old Meenakshi Moorthy and her husband, 29-year-old Vishnu Viswanath, were both "intoxicated with ethyl alcohol prior to death." AP Photo/Amanda Lee Myers, File
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A woman visiting Yosemite National Park was killed by falling rock and ice while hiking on a closed trail, the park said in a statement on Feb. 25.

The incident happened on Sunday, Feb. 24, around 12:30 p.m. Xuan Wang from Cupertino, California, was walking on the Mist Trail, which leads to Vernal Fall.

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