A man and a woman met with an accident on Tuesday while paragliding in Kerala’s Varkala as they got stuck on a high mast light pole.
The video of the incident has now surfaced on social media and gone viral. Both the tourists were rescued and they were shifted to a hospital. According to reports, one of the persons who got stuck was an instructor, while the other was a Coimbatore-based tourist.
It is important to note that, paragliding is an unregulated sport in India.
(This is a developing news story. More details will be added shortly)
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