A LISBURN woman has died after falling from a hotel balcony while on holiday in Malta.

Linda Hampton was staying at the San Anton hotel with her family when she fell from the third floor of the building. The 41-year-old woman had been hospitalised several times during her holiday due to epilepsy, and it is thought that she may have suffered another attack while exercising near the balcony.

Mrs Hampton had been on holiday with her husband, two of her three children, and her parents when the tragic accident occurred.

The incident follows the recent death of a three-year-old girl who drowned in a swimming pool accident while her family were on holiday in Spain. On 10 July, Peggy Flynn had been playing with her brothers beside the pool, when it is thought a gust of wind blew the girl into the water, where she subsequently perished. The child’s parents and five brothers and sisters, from Kircubbin, Co Down, were described as being devastated following what is the latest in a series of deaths involving children drowning whilst on holiday in Europe. (CL)