Mother dies shielding her 3-year-old son from a falling tree while hiking with family in Tennessee national park
The falling tree also hurt Jibran, Laila Jiwani's young son, breaking his leg in two places and leaving him with 'superficial head injuries'
Officials at Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountain National Park reported that a pediatrician and mother of three lost her life while shielding her 3-year-old from a falling tree last week.
Speaking to the Dallas Morning News, park spokesman Mike Litterst said 42-year-old Laila Jiwani was walking with her husband and three children Thursday when she was fatally struck by a tree that was knocked down due to high winds along the Porter Creek Trail inside the 800-square-mile park. Jiwani was a doctor at Cook Children’s Northside Neighborhood Clinic in Fort Worth, Texas, the New York Post reports.