Horrified parents came into their young daughter's bedroom to find her hanging by her neck after she was playing with ribbons.
The eight-year-old girl died after accidentally hanging herself while practising acrobatics in her bedroom with the fabric ribbons.
Layla Eluney Cabrera was reportedly practising acrobatics with aerial ribbons when she accidentally tangled the fabric around her neck on 25 February.
She tragically died at her home in the neighbourhood of 245 Viviendas located in the city of Ushuaia in the southernmost Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego.
Her parents reportedly found her in her bedroom hanging by her neck from the fabric and tried to revive the young girl.
According to local reports, the emergency services arrived on the scene and found little Layla's desperate parents performing CPR on her lifeless body.
Police officers and firefighters on the scene also tried to resuscitate the girl, but to no avail.
The local authorities currently consider the case an accidental death.
Her heartbroken family posted on social media, saying: "It is not goodbye, it is see you soon Laylita. We are going to miss you a lot, Princess."
The police investigation continues.
Ushuaia is a small, close-knit city on the southern tip of the South American continent, although popular with tourists in the summer season; harsh weather can see the local population isolated in the winter months.
Tierra del Fuego ('Land of Fire ') is the smallest and least populous province in Argentina. It is also the most recent national territory to be given provincial status, which took place in 1990.
The province includes Argentina's claims to the British Overseas Territories of the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands as well as a segment of Antarctica that partly covers UK and Chilean claims on that continent.
