Ashok RainaDharamshala, Nov. 12 -- A 26-year-old tourist from Greater Noida died in a tragic paragliding accident at the world-famous Bir-Billing paragliding site in Himachal Pradesh's Kangra district on Tuesday evening, allegedly due to a safety lapse during a tandem flight.
The deceased has been identified as Shubham Dobiyal, son of Kamal Singh Dobial and a resident of Noida. He was brought to the Community Health Centre (CHC), Baijnath, following the incident. However, doctors declared him brought dead. The incident reportedly occurred at around 5.32 pm on November 10.
According to reports, the locking mechanism of the paragliding equipment broke during the flight, causing the tourist to fall from the paraglider barely six minutes afte...