A healthy child has died during a routine operation to remove her tonsils.
Seven-year-old Paisley Cogsdill died just one minute into the surgery, which her parents say was being done as she snored in her sleep.
The youngster was having the tonsillectomy surgery in South Carolina, US, when her heart suddenly stopped.
Relatives told WHNS news that Paisley was perfectly healthy.
Her grandmother Mary Beth Truelock said: "Going into surgery, she had no fear.
"She was smiling and happy. Nothing was wrong."
Her family say Paisley was an active little girl, and had an attitude full of joy "in everything she did, from playing tee ball and softball to performing hip-hop dance routines and gymnastics programs with her friends at the Dance Shop and Dance South."
An online fundraiser set up to cover the funeral expenses had raised more than $30,000 - about £23,000.
In the UK the NHS carried out 37,000 childhood tonsillectomies between April 2016 and March 2017, and others were carried out privately.
Back in March 2018, four-year-old Logan Solheim died of brain damage days after having a tonsillectomy following repeat bouts of tonsilitis.
Logan, from Wirral, Merseyside had the operation, which was carried out as normal, and was discharged from hospital hours later.
But the boy started vomiting blood and had breathing difficulties the next day.
Paramedics rushed him to hospital but he died there two days later.
Pathologist Dr Rajeev Shukla, who performed the post-mortem, told the inquest into little Logan's death had suffered catastrophic hemorrhaging following the operation to remove his tonsils.
He said, although it was a recognised risk of such surgery, it was extremely rare.
