Israeli man killed in South Africa parasailing accident
Foreign Ministry to assist family in bringing body home; Israeli women injured in Cape Town car crash
An Israeli man was killed Thursday in a parasailing accident near Pretoria in South Africa.
Channel 10 reported that the family of a 61-year-old man from the West Bank settlement of Ariel has been informed of his death.
The Foreign Ministry confirmed that it received details of the incident and would assist the family in organizing the transfer of the body back to Israel.
The precise circumstances of the accident were not yet clear but according to Hebrew-media reports, the man’s equipment failed and he crashed.
In another unrelated incident in South Africa Thursday, an Israeli woman was critically injured in a car accident in Cape Town. Her condition later improved, Army Radio reported, and she was now in hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
According to local reports cited by Channel 10, the 18-year-old woman was hit by a driver who lost control of his vehicle. She was with a group of other Israelis but it was not clear if any of them were injured.
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