09-07-2025
Brit run down and killed in front of husband while jogging as driver questioned
A 35-year-old British woman, who has not been named, tragically died after being knocked down by a car while jogging with her husband in the town of Beaune, eastern France
A British woman has been knocked down and killed abroad while out running with her husband.
Police have taken the driver into custody. The unnamed 35-year-old was jogging in the town of Beaune in eastern France when the tragedy happened on Tuesday at around 8am. Emergency services rushed to the scene and paramedics, arriving 15 minutes later, found her in cardiac arrest. Sadly they were not able to resuscitate her and she died at the scene. A 45-year-old driver of the car is now being questioned by police having been taken into custody, reported local outlet Le Bien Public. The husband of the victim is understood to have been treated for shock but he was not injured.
The Mirror has approached the Foreign Office for comment.
Meanwhile, a British woman died following a powerful gas explosion at a bar in southern Spain, last month.
The 56-year-old was one of two women killed after a gas canister exploded at the Casa Javi bar in San Pedro del Pinatar in Murcia on June 19. The unnamed Brit, who reportedly lived in the area, was going by the weekly market when she was struck by the blast.
Their deaths were confirmed a week later by the local council in a post on X. The other fatal victim was the 38-year-old owner of the bar, a woman of Moroccan origin named Hind, who suffered severe burns.
Both victims had been hospitalised following the incident which saw at least 15 other people injured. Local police, ambulances and firefighters rushed to the scene at around 12:23pm local time, following 25 calls from members of the public.
And a tourist from the UK along with her friend have been killed by a charging elephant during a 'sunrise safari walk' in Zambia.
At around 6am local time on Thursday, July 3, the victims, a 68-year-old and a 67-year-old, were attacked by a female elephant that was with a calf at South Luangwa National Park, Eastern Province Police Commissioner Robertson Mweemba said.
The two friends had been based at the Big Lagoon Bush Camp and had been enjoying an early morning walk to another part of the camp when the horror incident took place.
Mr Mweemba said: "Two female tourists while taking a safari walk to a crossing point at Luangwa river spotted an elephant with a calf at a distance and diverted about 50m away, but within few minutes after diverting a tea bearer who is usually behind saw the elephant charging at them."
The tea bearer reportedly shouted 'elephants' and as the two women turned around they saw it storming towards them at high speed. In a desperate bid to help the women, the safari guides who were with the group fired shots at the elephant.
While the elephant was hit by the gunshots, the guides were unable to prevent the attack and both women died at the scene, police said.
The pair "had spent four peaceful days immersed in nature's embrace. Their journey was meant to continue - but instead, we remember them for their courage, their curiosity, and their love for life's wild places", a local said.
The bodies of the two women were taken to Mambwe District Hospital for mortuary services, awaiting further details. Their cause of death is yet to be formally confirmed.
