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Austrian woman dies in accident at Norwegian waterfall

Other News Materials 4 June 2011 13:43 (UTC +04:00)
An Austrian woman has died after slipping and falling into a waterfall in western Norway, media reports said Saturday.
Austrian woman dies in accident at Norwegian waterfall

An Austrian woman has died after slipping and falling into a waterfall in western Norway, media reports said Saturday.

The accident occurred Friday when the 61-year-old woman and her husband were visiting the well-known Voringsfossen waterfalls at Eidfjord, DPA reported.

The woman was posing for a photo near the edge of the falls, and slipped when she stepped back, falling some 100 metres, the newspaper VG reported.

It has rained a lot in the region, making the rocks at the location very slippery, police spokesman Bjarne Floknes said.

A helicopter was later deployed to retrieve the body.

Public broadcaster NRK reported that in 2009 a Russian man died in a similar accident at the falls.

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