17-year-old girl dies in Utah after falling 30 feet while hiking with friends

A teenage girl in Moab, Utah, is dead after falling about 30 feet while hiking with friends. 

Police confirmed the tragedy in a news release shared on social media. 

The 17-year-old, who has not been identified, was hiking with friends just after 4 p.m. local time when she "somehow slipped and fell." The group she was with called 911 and tried to get to her, but there was "no safe way to do so," police said.