RegionDestroyedException while creating region

Hi,

I noticed RegionDestroyedException while creating a region in our application. This is the first time we are noticing this and after restarting application it worked as expected. In what cases does create method on RegionFactory throw this exception? Also, if this happens in future, how do we handle such cases? Should the code catch this exception and retry creating the region? Please suggest.

Region is created this way -

regionFactory.create("regionName")

Thanks