Body of paraglider who went missing after take-off from Chitral's Zaini Pass found
CHITRAL: The body of the 55-year-old paraglider Asif Mehmood, who went missing shortly after take-off from Zaini Pass in Upper Chitral on Thursday, was found in the highland pasture of Oveer Valley on Friday afternoon after a shepherd spotted him. A search operation had been underway in the high-altitude Barum hills after Mehmood, who was a resident of Wah Cantt, went missing following a sudden…
The body of 55-year-old paraglider Asif Mehmood, who went missing after taking off from Chitral's Zaini Pass, has been found in the highland pasture of Oveer Valley on Friday afternoon. Mehmood, a resident of Wah Cantt, was part of a six-member group that took off from Zaini Pass on Thursday afternoon when the weather turned inclement about an hour into the flight.
Despite the president of Upper Chitral’s paragliders’ association, Zahiruddin Baber, maintaining radio contact with Mehmood for about one-and-a-half hours, Mehmood's signal went offline, prompting a search operation in the high-altitude Barum hills. The operation resumed early on Friday after being suspended overnight due to darkness and poor visibility.
Mehmood sustained backbone and head injuries after crashing into a hillock, and his body has been taken to the tehsil headquarters hospital in Booni for a postmortem examination. This incident marks the first paraglider fatality in Chitral in over 25 years.
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