British patient kicked to death by horse

London, April 15 (IANS) A British hospital patient who was told to take a walk by doctors is thought to have been savagely kicked to death by a horse, Daily Mail reported.

Police have confirmed that the body of a 53-year-old woman was discovered in a field in Darenth Wood Road, near Darent Valley Hospital, Kent, at about 10 a.m. Friday.

A spokesman for Kent police said: "It is believed that a stallion in the field where the body was found may have caused her death."

The woman, from Gravesend in Kent, was a patient at the nearby hospital who had been advised by doctors to take a walk, the Mail reported Sunday quoting The Sun newspaper.