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SALT LAKE CITY -- A sad update on a story first reported by KSL in January.
It's about a soldier serving in Iraq and the family he brought to this country for medical attention. The Iraqi family has three children who suffer from a severe type of dwarfism.
The soldier, Russell Hayes, and his wife paid for the family to come to Utah for life-saving surgeries.
One of those children, 14-year-old Saja Salman, has died at Primary Children's Medical Center after several complex surgeries aimed at straightening her spine.
Her two siblings, also suffering from dwarfism, are still recovering from their surgeries.
