Former Miss Austria beauty queen Ena Kadic has died after falling off the side of a mountain while jogging.

The 26-year-old often enjoyed jogging in her home town of Tirol, where the Bergisel mountain is situated.

Police have launched an investigation as to how Kadic would have fallen to her death on a path she regularly jogged on and knew so well.

Kadic was rushed to hospital after falling 30 metres, suffering serious head trauma and injuries to her lung as well as to her pelvis.

Ena Kadic: The beauty queen was rushed to hospital yesterday morning by air ambulance (
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It is understood that she was able to call her brother, alerting him to her injuries, but then passed out moments later.

She was lifted by air ambulance to hospital at the nearby Innsbruck University clinic after the fall yesterday, but died this morning.

Fall: After falling from the side of the mountain, she called her brother but passed out shortly afterwards (
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The beauty queen won Miss Austria - seeing off 17 other contestants - in 2013.

She then took part in the Miss World contest in Indonesia, however since then had withdrawn from public life.

Winner: The beauty queen won Miss Austria against 17 other women in 2013 (
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Earlier this year she told Seitenblicke magazine: "The media, the events, the parties - that life did not make me so happy."