A woman on board a Virgin Voyages cruise liner tragically fell to her death from a balcony and landed on a fellow passenger on a deck below. The incident happened shortly after the ship departed from Miami ahead of schedule to Roatan in Honduras on Sunday evening.
The victim is thought to have been on the balcony before tumbling over the edge and hitting another passenger midfall, who remarkably came away unharmed. The woman received immediate medical attention but unfortunately died at the scene, the Mirror reports.
It's understood the ship returned to Miami after the horrific incident with locals officials investigating what caused the female passenger's fall. A statement from Virgin Voyages, released by TMZ read: "Yesterday evening shortly after departure there was a medical emergency involving one of our passengers.