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Canadian tourist killed in paragliding accident in Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro

Canadian tourist killed in paragliding accident in Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro. [Reuters]

A Canadian man has died in a paragliding accident in Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, a popular tourist hotspot in East Africa, a Tanzania National Parks (TANAPA) official said on Sunday.

He fell to his death after his parachute failed to open, Paschal Shelutete, senior assistant conservation commissioner at the state-run TANAPA told Reuters.

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