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A CAMBRIDGE University student died after falling out of a plane while she took part in an internship in Madagascar.

The 19-year-old Alana Cutland from Milton Keynes died while on an internship in the north-east of the African island nation earlier this month, the Foreign Office said.

Reports said she fell from a Cessna-style light aircraft as it flew above the savannah after she had been conducting research in the remote area of Anjajavy

Local police are investigating whether the Cambridge University student deliberately threw herself to her death from the two-door Cessna aircraft after carrying out research in the remote area of Anjajavy.

Her body has not yet been recovered.

Police photographs recreating Ms Cutland’s final moments appear to show the pilot and a second passenger grasping hold of the victim’s leg as she hangs out of the plane, in a desperate effort to keep her onboard.