6-year-old who died on Colorado amusement park ride identified
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A 6-year-old girl who died on an amusement park ride in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, on Sunday has been identified. Wongel Estifanos died while vacationing with her parents at Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park, CBS Denver reports.
She was on the Haunted Mine Drop ride, which plunges down a 120-foot mine shaft, dropping around 110 feet at a speed of 96 feet per second, the station reports. The child's cause of death is being investigated. According to initial calls from dispatch to police, the girl fell 110 feet while on the ride, CBS Denver reported.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.