A woman who survived brutal Nazi and Communist regimes has been killed by an unexpected assailant: a banana. 73-year-old old Australian Ivanka Perko, who escaped from Slovenia when it was still part of communist Yugoslvia, died in hospital last week in bizarre circumstances - she suffered complications after she dropped a banana on her leg.

After escaping Slovenia with nothing but the clothes on her back and a pocket full of black pepper to ward off the guard dogs, she made her home in Australia. Apparently her last words to friends and family while on her deathbed were: “I can’t believe after all this time it was a bloody banana that killed me.”

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A family friend told Australian paper, The Saturday Daily Telegraph, that Ms Perko had been ill for several months with a condition that made her skin delicate and fine.

“She had tried to open a banana and dropped it,” the friend said. “The pointy end scraped down her leg and she died from complications. It was an appropriate end to a unique and fruitful life???.

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