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Briton dies in Siberia hike plunge

Updated on 27 August 2008

Source PA News

A British tourist has plunged to her death while hiking in Siberia.

Joanna Brown, 30, was trekking in the Irkutsk area when she fell, the Foreign Office said.

It is understood she was hiking around the shores of Lake Baikal when the accident happened on Monday.

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