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YOSEMITE, Calif. - Yosemite National Park is investigating a freak and deadly accident involving fallen tree branches that claimed the life of a 29-year-old Google software engineer.

What we know:

The victim was hiking in the park through Tuolumne Grove on July 19, when branches came down on her, her boyfriend, and two other friends, the boyfriend David Hua told SF Gate, which first reported on the accident.

Hua his girlfriend, Angela Lin, was struck and killed by one those falling branches.

"It was just unimaginable that something like this could occur on such a popular trail, too," Hua told SFGate .

Hue recounted how moments before the deadly incident, the four of them heard a loud cracking above them.

"Two to three seconds later, branches fell out of the sky," H

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