Woman dies after horse spooked by chainsaw

A woman from America has been killed after falling from the horse she was riding

Fifty-four-year-old Debra Joost was out riding in Emmett, Idaho on Sunday (5 April) when the horse was spooked by a chainsaw.

She was bucked off and paramedics pronounced her dead at the scene.

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