A 56-year-old Iowa woman was struck and killed by debris from an explosion at a gender-reveal party on Saturday.
Officials with the Marion County Sheriff's Office said in a statement that they received a 911 call on Saturday afternoon around 4 p.m. reporting that a woman, 56, had been seriously injured in an explosion in the rural area of Knoxville, Iowa. The woman, who has not been identified by officials, was pronounced dead at the scene, a press release about the incident stated.
Deputies determined that the woman was participating in a gender-reveal announcement that included an explosion. When it went off, a flying piece of debris struck the woman. Officials with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are involved with the investigation.
No other information has been released at this time.
Saturday's incident is the latest in a series of 'gender-reveals gone wrong' that include when a man in Tuscon, Arizona shot at a target set up on some dry grassland that was supposed to release a pink or blue cloud of smoke to indicate the baby's gender. However, after the gunshot, the target exploded, sparking a fire that would eventually char about 47,000 acres in Southern Arizona.