A 63-year-old British man has died in a paragliding accident in Spain’s north-eastern Catalonia region, authorities have said.<\/p>\n
Emergency services received a report of the accident in the Palau de Noguera area, near the town of Tremp, about 13:30 local time (14:30 BST) on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The man, who was found seriously injured by rescuers, received first aid until medical teams arrived, but later died. <\/p>\n
The UK Foreign Office said it was “supporting the family of a British man who has died in Spain”.<\/p>\n
Palau de Noguera is located near \u00c0ger – an area popular with paragliders and hang gliders on the edge of the Pyrenees in north-eastern Spain.<\/p>\n
Local media reported that the man appeared to have become tangled in power lines before hitting the ground.<\/p>\n
However, officials have not confirmed the cause of the accident.<\/p>\n
The Catalan government said three fire brigades and two medical teams attended the scene. <\/p>\n
It added that the Mossos d’Esquadra, the main police force in Catalonia, has worked with five teams from the citizen security and investigation units.<\/p>\n
Authorities were expected to inform the man’s family through British consular channels, according to local media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 63-year-old British man has died in a paragliding accident in Spain’s north-eastern Catalonia region, authorities have said.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-645470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}