A WOMAN was killed after a pensioner jumped from a fourth-floor apartment - landing on her and surviving the fall.

Francesca Manno, 83, tragically died while walking through the courtyard of the building in northern Italy .

A 70-year-old man fell directly onto Ms Manno in the Baggio district of Milan on Sunday afternoon at around 6pm local time.

The man had climbed over his balcony railing in the building where both he and Ms Manno lived, according to Corriere Milano .

In the immediate aftermath, investigators feared it was a double suicide, with a couple having jumped together, the Italian newspaper reports.

But the military later confirmed that the man and woman were strangers.

It is now understood that the man had attempted suicide and that Ms Manno's death was the result of a

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