Five-year-old Colorado girl Aurora Masters was strangled by a backyard swing in a freak accident

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From Katherine Donlevy

A 5-year-old Colorado girl died days after she was strangled by her spinal disc oscillation in a freak accident, according to a report.

Little Aurora Masters was playing in the backyard of her Fort Collins home last week when she somehow got caught in the jungle gym accessories.

“She pulled her little plastic slide over to where her swing was,” her great-aunt Brenda Kennedy told KDVR-TV.

“And somehow she got caught in the swing and the swing was strangling her.”

Aurora was hospitalized in critical condition and spent several days in the intensive care unit until her family made the difficult decision to pull the plug.

“Aurora had no oxygen and that caused her brain to swell. An MRI confirmed today that the swelling was so severe that it will not go away, and we have made the difficult decision to transition Aurora to end-of-life care and organ donation,” Kennedy wrote in an online fundraiser.

She was placed on life support for two days to preserve her organs, which were then donated to other children in need.

The family’s “ray of sunshine” officially went out on Monday – after the stunning Northern Lights lit up the skies across the country for an entire weekend.

“If you looked up last night or looked up tonight, you will see our Miss Aurora putting on a beautiful show for you with the Borealis,” Kennedy wrote.

Fort Collins police are not further investigating Aurora’s death and told USA Today that there was no probable cause for criminal conduct and classified the incident as a tragic accident.