// Later, birds find her corpse and feed on the eyes and protruding tongue. //
except that a comment above notes that, apparently, blood was found in her stomach from trauma prior to death.
Maybe she was tumbled in a slide and bit her tongue off. The injury would account for the missing tongue and blood in the stomach. It would also be consistent with compression and blunt force injuries that the others seemed to have had.
If you accept the flight scenario, then an ensuing melee in the course of fleeing could have caused injuries.