Police received the information and reached the spot along with the firefighting team who brought the paragliders down.
Two people paragliding in Varkala in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram district met with an accident and got stuck on a high-mast lighting pole for nearly an hour. Police received the information and reached the spot along with the firefighting team who brought them down.
A video of the accident was shared by news agency ANI, where a man and woman could be seen stuck on a lighting pole.
According to Malayalam newspaper Matrubhumi, the woman was a tourist from Coimbatore who was paragliding with her gliding instructor. They had to jump into the net spread below to be rescued.
Both of them were shifted to a nearby hospital subsequently.