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ERMELO, South Africa -- A woman was sliced in two by a light
aircraft as she tried to cross a runway in northeast South
Africa.
Police said three women were running across the runway at Ermelo
on Monday when one of them was hit by the plane's left wing as
it came into land, Beeld newspaper reported.
Spokesman Captain Carla Prinsloo said the women were thought to
have been picking up wood in a plantation near the airfield when
the accident happened.
He said, "They took a shortcut over the airfield but one of the
women miscalculated and was hit by the plane's left wing."
The woman, believed to be in her late 50s, died instantly. The
pilot was unhurt.
Prinsloo said police were still waiting for the victim's family
to identify her body. An autopsy was due to be held Wednesday.
Local residents are thought to have put up ladders on both sides
of the airstrip and regularly climbed over them to cross the
runway.