{"id":1062557,"date":"2022-04-19T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/19\/easter-fun-turns-tragic-for-teenager-after-she-dies-in-paragliding-accident\/"},"modified":"2022-04-19T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T21:00:00","slug":"easter-fun-turns-tragic-for-teenager-after-she-dies-in-paragliding-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/19\/easter-fun-turns-tragic-for-teenager-after-she-dies-in-paragliding-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter fun turns tragic for teenager after she dies in paragliding accident"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Paraglider airborne at the Kerio escarpments as locals gather to view them enjoy the sport. <\/strong>[Michael Olinga, Standard]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Police are investigating the death of a teenager at a popular paraglider on Monday.\n<\/p>\n

The 19-year-old had gone for fun during the Easter break at the Kerio escarpment when she died.\n<\/p>\n

Police say the teenager hit a rock after the paraglider detached as she was riding at the popular spot at Kessup near Iten town, Elgeyo Marakwet. <\/p>\n

\u201cShe had several bruises and a broken leg. Our officers and locals pulled her out of the paraglider but died when she was about to be driven from the scene to a nearby hospital,\u201d said Keiyo North Police Commander Tom Makori.\n<\/p>\n

Area Assistant Chief Cedric Changwony said the teenager sat the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education examination this month.<\/p>\n

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The body was taken to the Iten County Referral Hospital.\n<\/p>\n

Paragliding activities have been on the decline in the area after a number of accidents.\n<\/p>\n

In January 2018, two Germans who were paragliding were killed at Emis, Nyaru Location. <\/p>\n

In the same year, 39-year-old American Kimbery Ann died alongside a Czech, Tomas Lednik, in another accident.\n<\/p>\n

Ann had been living in Kenya since 2001 and was a frequent visitor to Iten where paragliding has been common for a long time.\n<\/p>\n

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Paraglider airborne at the Kerio escarpments as locals gather to view them enjoy the sport. [Michael Olinga, Standard] Police are investigating the death of a teenager at a popular paraglider on Monday. The 19-year-old had gone for fun during the Easter break at the Kerio escarpment when she died. Police say the teenager hit a rock after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1062558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3887],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1062557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}