Story highlights The tree was a 200-year-old oak, local media report

A little girl was among those killed, the regional health chief says

(CNN) Thirteen people were killed and 49 others injured when an enormous tree fell Tuesday in Madeira, Portugal, officials said.

The tree came down during an important Catholic celebration on the island, regional Health Secretary Pedro Ramos said in a televised news conference.

The dead and injured had gathered to honor Our Lady of the Mountain at a church in a village near the island's main city of Funchal, Ramos said. Tuesday marked the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, when Catholics celebrate the assumption of the body of Jesus Christ's mother into heaven. It is one of six Catholic holy days of obligation.

People help the injured after a falling tree killed 13 people on August 15, 2017, in Madeira, Portugal.

A spokesman for the Funchal Hospital announced the 13th death on Tuesday. Sixteen of the injured people remain in the hospital, he said.

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