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Leaping ray kills Florida boater
The spotted eagle ray which hit the Michigan woman
The spotted eagle ray also died after the impact
A US woman on a boat off the Florida Keys has died after a ray leapt up and struck her in the face.



The ray died in the impact. Mrs Zagorski, of Pigeon, Michigan, was pronounced dead in hospital.


The spotted eagle ray resembles a stingray and has a stinging barb at the base of its tail. They are common in warm or tropical waters.

Mr Pino said Zagorski did not appear to have been pierced by a barb.

The incident occurred near the town of Marathon in southern Florida.

In September 2006, Australian TV naturalist Steve Irwin died when a stingray's barb punctured his heart as he filmed at Queensland's Great Barrier Reef.


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