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Florida woman falls to her death at Grand Canyon

Colleen Burns posted this photo on Instagram shortly before her death. Instagram/ColleenBurns

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. – A Florida woman accidentally stepped off an edge at Grand Canyon National Park and plummeted hundreds of feet to her death.

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Officials say 35-year-old Colleen Burns of Orlando fell at Ooh Aah Point on Friday, about a mile down the popular South Kaibab Trail.

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Park rangers found her body about 400 feet from where she had been standing.

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Park officials say Burns had been with family hiking and taking photographs of the sunrise on the trail. They announced her death Monday.

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Burns died nearly two weeks after a California man fell to his death at the national park.

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