A BRIT woman has died after a horror whitewater rafting accident in the French Alps â sparking cops to launch a manslaughter investigation.
The tragic accident occurred shortly after 12pm on Saturday in the southeast of the country while she rafting was in the Guisane River, the local prosecutor said.
A Brit woman died while whitewater rafting in Briancon in the French Alps (stock)The 69-year-old Brit fell from her raft and was later “found on the riverbank”;, according to the local firefighting service.
She was urgently rushed to Briancon hospital shortly after being found.
The horrific ordeal unfolded at a section of the Guisane River called “the wallet”;.
Gap prosecutor Marion Lozac’hmeur confirmed that the woman was of British nationality and was born in 1956.
She added that an autopsy would be conducted.
A Foreign Office spokesperson said:“We are in touch with local authorities following the death of a British woman in France.”;
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