Hiker from Mass. dies after being struck by a falling boulder in N.H.
FRANCONIA, N.H. -- A Massachusetts woman is dead after a boulder falls on her while she's out hiking in New Hampshire with her family.
Lieutenant Todd Bogardus of New Hampshire Fish and Game says 28-year-old Shu Qin of Wellesley (Massachusetts) was hiking on the Falling Waters Trail in Franconia.
The family was about 11/2 from the trailhead near Cloudland Falls at about 2:30 yesterday afternoon when the 5-foot-by-3-foot, 20-inch thick boulder broke off a ledge and fell about 40 feet, striking her.
Bogardus says the woman, originally from Shanghai, China, suffered severe head injuries. She was taken to Littleton Regional Hospital where she was pronounced dead.
He says the incident was simply a tragic accident.
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