A woman fell to her death in a Cape Town quarry while trying to fight off a man who tried to grab her handbag.
|||Cape Town - A woman fell to her death in a Cape Town quarry while trying to fight off a criminal, Western Cape police said on Wednesday.
Lt-Col Andre Traut said the woman, 47, and her daughter, 26, were approached by a man with a knife on Tuesday evening while walking on Upper Strand street, Bo Kaap.
The man grabbed the mother's handbag and the two got into a scuffle. The woman slipped and fell down the quarry.
The man fled the scene with the handbag. The daughter was unharmed.
Traut said a murder case being investigated and no arrests had been made. - Sapa