Seventy-five-year old Militsa Fanti died on Saturday afternoon after being involved in an accident while foraging, police said n Sunday.
The accident took place at 3.50pm while she had gone to visit a relative in the Morphou area to pick mushrooms.
Under circumstances that are still being investigated, she fell into a ravine resulting in a serious head injury.
The pensioner was taken by hospital to Nicosia general hospital, where she later died.
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