A woman from Texas was killed while shielding her son from a tree knocked down by high winds in Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee last week, according to her family. Laila Jiwani, 42, was hiking with her husband and three children on Porter Creek Trail on Thursday when the tree fell, park spokesman Mike Litterst told the Dallas Morning News. The spokesman said the 6-year-old was airlifted to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Jiwani said doctors told him his wife — who the New York Post identified as a pediatrician at Cook Children’s Northside Neighborhood Clinic in Fort Worth — took most of the impact and saved her son. He wrote that part of the tree “fell from the sky.”Funeral services are scheduled for Wednesday in Dallas.

Source: Fox News January 01, 2019 03:11 UTC