A woman was critically injured while hiking to a beauty spot on the western island of Lefkada when a falling rock hit her on the head.

A woman was critically injured while hiking to a beauty spot on the western island of Lefkada when a falling rock hit her on the head.

The woman, 50, was hit on the head at the Nydri waterfalls in Lefkada, Greece, where a fragment of rock came loose and broke off which caused the severe injury.