{"id":182670,"date":"2022-01-28T00:49:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T19:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=182670"},"modified":"2022-01-28T00:49:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T19:19:03","slug":"paraglider-dies-after-falling-from-parachute-in-assam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/01\/28\/paraglider-dies-after-falling-from-parachute-in-assam\/","title":{"rendered":"Paraglider dies after falling from parachute in Assam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tinsukia, Jan 27 (PTI) A 35-year-old tourist was killed when he fell down during paragliding at a temporary resort set up in Dibru river in Assam&#8217;s Tinsukia district, officials said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The resort was set up illegally on Dibru riverbed at Guijan as the area falls under the eco-sensitive zone of Dibru-Saikhowa National Park and was offering various adventure sports like paragliding, official sources said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The paraglider, identified as Pankaj Gogoi, fell from the parachute when the jeep pulling it got stuck in the river sand due to &#8220;some reason&#8221; on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was critically injured and succumbed while being taken to hospital, an official said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Locals alleged that resort was set up illegally and is owned by a businessman, who is a &#8220;BJP leader&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We have complained to the district administration several times. Recently, a team of the Forest Department inspected the resort to examine if it was being run as per the government guidelines, but still nothing happened,&#8221; a local said on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tinsukia, Jan 27 (PTI) A 35-year-old tourist was killed when he fell down during paragliding at a temporary resort set up in Dibru river in Assam&#8217;s Tinsukia district, officials said on Thursday. The resort was set up illegally on Dibru riverbed at Guijan as the area falls under the eco-sensitive zone of Dibru-Saikhowa National Park [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-182670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}