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Two vacationers died in two separate paragliding accidents in Kangra and Kullu districts of Himachal Pradesh inside a span of 24 hours. The vacationers have been from Gujarat and Tamil Nadu, police mentioned on Saturday.
On the Indrunag paragliding website close to Dharamshala, Bhavsar Khushi from Ahmedabad who was on a tandem flight died as she fell throughout take-off on Saturday night. The pilot additionally fell along with her and sustained accidents.
The pilot was despatched to Tanda Medical School for therapy, ASP Kangra Vir Bahadur mentioned.
All elements are being investigated, he added.
In one other incident, a 28-year-old vacationer from Tamil Nadu died whereas the pilot sustained severe accidents whereas paragliding close to the Garsa touchdown website in Kullu district on Friday night.
The accident occurred when one paraglider doing acrobatics unintentionally hit one other paraglider and certainly one of them fell to the bottom.
The accident occurred after they have been 100 ft above the bottom. Whereas Jayash Ram succumbed to his accidents, pilot Ashwani Kumar sustained severe accidents and was despatched to PGI Chandigarh for therapy.
Police mentioned a case beneath sections 125 (negligent act endangering lifetime of others) and 106 (inflicting demise by negligence) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita have been registered and additional investigations are underway.
Earlier on January 7, a vacationer from Andhra Pradesh had died whereas paragliding at Raison, about 20 km from Manali in Kullu district, following which tourism authorities closed the Naga Bagh paragliding website after negligence was discovered within the preliminary inquiry.
As per preliminary inquiry, the operator was discovered to be negligent because the flight didn’t take off from the location recognized by the tourism division. The license of the operator was additionally cancelled.
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