A BOY of 13 has died after plunging 130ft into a volcano while walking with his family.
The youngster is understood to have slipped into the crater in El Volcancilla national forest in Mexico.
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He was strolling with his family when they noticed he had vanished, according to reports.
They were horrified when they spotted him at the bottom of the 130ft drop.
His devastated loved ones call emergency services, who rushed to the scene.
It took rescue crews around three hours to retrieve the teen’s body.
Paramedics believe he died immediately after he fell on Friday.
His body was transferred to the Forensic Medical Service in the city of Xalapa for autopsy.
Thousands of people visit the Volcancillo volcano and park every year, with hiking, climbing and rappelling popular in the area.
The last volcanic activity at the site was about 900 years ago, according to local media.
It comes after another 13-year-old boy plummeted almost 100ft into the Grand Canyon after moving so tourists could snap photos.
Wyatt Kauffman slipped off a cliff near Bright Angel Point trail while on a trip with his mother visiting national parks.
He suffered nine broken vertebrae, a collapsed lung, a ruptured spleen, a concussion and a broken hand in the horror fall.
After it took rescuers two hours to reach him in the treacherous canyon, he was airlifted to hospital in Las Vegas.
He told local Phoenix news KPNX: “I was up on the ledge and was moving out of the way so other people could take a picture.
“I squatted down and was holding on to a rock. I only had one hand on it.”
Wyatt said he didn’t have a good grip on the rock soon fell backwards.
He said: “‘I just remember somewhat waking up and being in the back of an ambulance and a helicopter and getting on a plane and getting here [the hospital].”