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 today.
Local residents are thought to have put up ladders on both sides of the airstrip and regularly climbed over them to cross the runway.
Read more at Beeld.com.
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