MUMBAI: A 32-year-old man from
Sakinaka
in Mumbai died on Sunday afternoon while on a
parasailing
trip off
Malvan coast
in
Sindhudurg
district, some 500 kilometres from here, police said.
The victim
Azhar Ansari and his wife
Heena
(24), newly married, were part of 16-member group that were trying their hand at parasailing, Inspector
Vinit Chaudhary
of Malvan police station said.
"Azhar Ansari was sitting on the deck (prior to parasailing) and fell into the sea, as it was choppy, after he went to the edge. Incidentally, he was not wearing a life jacket," Chaudhary informed.
Rescue personnel brought him out and rushed him to a nearby hospital where doctors declared him dead on arrival, the official added.
"An accidental death case has been registered and a probe is underway into the incident," Chaudhary said.
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