A middle school in Des Moines, Iowa, is mourning one of its most promising students, who died in a freak hammock accident on Saturday.
(FOX)- Police say 13-year-old Peri Sagun was killed when she joined her 16-year-old sister in a hammock that had been strung up between a tree and a brick light post in the family’s yard, the Des Moines Register reports.
When Peri jumped into the hammock that her sister was sitting on, the 5-foot-tall brick column collapsed on her head. The teen, who would have graduated from eighth grade at St.Augustin School next week, was rushed to a hospital but died soon after she arrived.
A city official tells the Register that brick columns are considered decorative features; as such, there aren’t any regulations about how much they can hold or any restrictions on building them.
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