An 11-year-old girl from Somerset, Massachusetts, has died after choking on a marshmallow at a birthday party last Saturday.
Azriel Estabrooks, a student at Somerset's North Elementary School, was found unconscious at the party and hospitalized for almost a week in critical condition, according to NBC affiliate WJAR in Rhode Island.
She died Friday morning, the school principal told WJAR.
Azriel's mother, Iris, said she dropped her daughter off at the party and received a call about an hour later from the mother who was hosting.
"[She said] that I need to hurry up because something happened to my daughter," Estabrooks told WJAR. "She doesn't know what happened."
The fire department responded to the scene, authorities said.
Estabrooks said rescuers found a marshmallow lodged in her daughter's throat. She believes Azriel was unconscious for some time without oxygen to her brain before someone found her and called for help.
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Estabrooks accused the host family of negligence. WJAR could not reach the family for comment at the time of the initial report.
