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Tributes paid to Italian surfer killed by swordfish in Mentawai
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Tourists surfs a wave at Lhoknga beach in Banda Aceh on Dec. 20, 2015. (AFP/Chaideer Mahyuddin)
T
ributes have been paid to an Italian surfer after she was fatally stabbed in the chest by a swordfish in waters off Mentawai Islands in West Sumatra.
Giulia Manfrini, 36, was surfing when she was struck by the fish last week.
"She was surfing in the waters off Masokut Island. A swordfish suddenly jumped and struck her in the chest," Mentawai Islands disaster mitigation agency's acting head Lahmudin Siregar told AFP on Tuesday.
"They brought her to the nearest health clinic but she was dead on arrival."
Lahmudin told Antara that the swordfish had caused a 5-centimeter deep wound.
The resort where she had been staying said she loved surfing in the region.
"She was hit in the chest by a needlefish and died almost immediately," Hidden Bay Resort Mentawais said in an Instagram statement on Monday.
