Italian surfer Giulia Manfrini was surfing in the Mentawai Islands when she was impaled by a swordfish, Indonesian authorities said. The resort said it was a needlefish.

The swordfish ‘unexpectedly jumped towards Manfrini and pierced her chest’, says acting head of disaster management agency

Italian surfer and influencer Giulia Manfrini has died at age 36 after she was fatally impaled by a swordfish off the western coast of Indonesia.