Italian surfer Giulia Manfrini died while surfing in North Sumatra, Indonesia, when she was struck in the chest by a swordfish, local media reported. Instagram @awavetravel & Gregory Sweeney via Getty.
An Italian woman died last week after she was impaled by a swordfish bill into her chest while surfing in Indonesia.
In tributes to 36-year-old Giulia Manfrini, her loved ones have called her death a “freak accident.”
Manfrini was surfing in the waters of the Mentawai Islands Regency when she was impaled by the swordfish, the acting head of the Mentawai Islands’ Disaster Management Agency, Lahmudin Sir
egar, told local media.
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