WARNING: UPSETTING CONTENT

Haunting video footage shows a 12 year-old girl get ready for a cheerleading contest before her house explodes and kills her.

Linda Rogers appears excited about her trip to the National Cheerleaders Association in the clip, filmed last February, and released by her family on the anniversary of her death.

Linda, from Dallas in Texas said: ‘Good morning, guys. It is 6:02 a.m. I’m going to get ready for…National Cheerleaders Association today.’


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The youngster, who was killed after a natural gas leak caught light, continued: ‘I’m gonna start with hair…turn on my lamp because I don’t want to turn on all of the lights.’



Linda continues to talk through her beauty routine, with the considerate schoolgirl again apologizing for speaking quietly, and explaining that she does not want to wake up her sleeping family.

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She explains: ‘I’m sorry if you guys can’t hear me still. But oh, well. They’re all sleeping.’

Linda then switched the camera to high-speed filming mode while continuing to get ready, with the screen filled with yellow sparks as her house explodes, before going black.

The schoolgirl’s devastated family discovered Linda’s iPhone in the wreckage of their home, and have found the videos of her final moments comforting as they grieve for their loss.

Linda Rogers is seen preparing for a cheerleading contest, moments before a huge gas explosion destroyed her house and killed her (Picture: Rogers family)

The explosion is visible only as a single frame showing sparks filling the screen (Picture: Rogers family)

After the explosion, they found her covered in debris, with doctors battling in vain to save Linda’s life at hospital. They wanted to donate their little girl’s organs, but doctors said her body had been too badly damaged by the ferocity of the blast.

Linda’s family managed to survive because they were further away from the explosion, and were surrounded by internal walls that protected them from the force of the blast.

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Explaining how she is coping with her daughter’s death one year on, Linda’s mom Maria Rogers told the Dallas Morning News: ‘Some days, I don’t feel the damage in my body.

‘I feel the pain in my heart.’

Rogers and her family have filed a $1million lawsuit against Atmos Energy, who were responsible for the gas pipeline that exploded.