A British teenage girl is in intensive care with serious injuries after a paraglider landed on her during the last lunch of her holiday.
Lyndsey Logan was on holiday in Turkey with her two daughters when the accident occurred.
On the last day of their trip they decided to go out for dinner before flying back to Newcastle that evening.
But as they ate at the table, a man paragliding landed on Ms Logan’s 15-year-old daughter, Lily.
The mother said her daughter was left with a broken jaw, broken ribs, brain bleeds and possibly a broken back, and suffered a stroke.
However, Ms Logan had not taken out travel insurance ahead of the holiday and said she is now facing a medical bill worth thousands, if not tens of thousands, of pounds to cover Lily’s care.
Speaking to The Sun, Ms Logan said she believed Lily had died during the incident.
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Describing what happened, she told the outlet: “We were meant to fly home at 7.30pm, so we went down together for our last lunch, with some nice English food.
‘I remember Lily was just eating, biting into a piece of pizza and this paraglider just came out of nowhere and completely swept her off the table.
“She put her face down on the table and we tried to get her up…I thought she was dead.”
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A spokesperson for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office told Sky News: “We are providing support to a British girl and her family after an accident in Turkey.”
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