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 Police said they were called to the Skydive Arizona facility in
Eloy, Arizona, about 65 miles south of Phoenix, at about 5 p.m.
local time and found one of the skydivers dead at the scene.
The other person was taken to a nearby hospital by ambulance and
pronounced dead there, said Eloy police spokesman Sergeant Brian
Jerome.
Witnesses reported the skydivers were descending with their
parachutes open when the collision occurred about 200 to 300 feet
above the ground, Jerome said. The canopies then collapsed and the
pair fell.
The identities of the two skydivers were not immediately released.
The cause of the accident was being investigated.
(Reporting by David Schwartz; editing by Alex Dobuzinskis and Ken
Wills) |
