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A woman sunbathing on a boat has died after a stingray leaped from the water, hitting her in the face and knocking her to the deck.
The incident, which happened in the Florida Keys, involved a 75lb spotted eagle ray and was described by wildlife experts as a freak accident.
Judy Zagorski, 57, of Pigeon, Michigan, was relaxing in the bow of a small fishing pleasure boat going 25 nautical mph when the ray leaped out of the water.
The impact is likely to have killed the woman but it was not immediately clear whether she was also stung by the venomous barb on the ray's tail, said officials.
The boat was being driven by the victim's father on the Atlantic Ocean side of Vaca Key when the creature, which had a wingspan of five to six feet, came out of the sea..
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