{"id":42552,"date":"2026-06-18T13:34:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/42552\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T13:34:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:34:39","slug":"british-paraglider-dies-after-getting-tangled-up-in-power-lines-in-rural-spain-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/42552\/","title":{"rendered":"British paraglider dies after getting &#8216;tangled up in power lines&#8217; in rural Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 63-year-old British man has died in a paragliding accident in north-east Spain after he got &#8220;tangled up in power lines,&#8221; according to local media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A spokesperson for the regional government said three fire brigades responded to reports of a paragliding accident in Palau de Noguera, a small village in Catalonia\u2019s Lleida province, at around 1.20pm local time on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">They launched a search to locate the 63-year-old, who was seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;They searched the area, located the victim seriously injured, and provided initial medical attention until the two crews from the Emergency Medical Service (SEM) arrived,&#8221; the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Unfortunately, the man, aged 63 and of British nationality, lost his life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Subscribe free to<a href=\"https:\/\/itvnews.substack.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:our weekly newsletter;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;our weekly newsletter&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> our weekly newsletter <\/a>for exclusive and original coverage from ITV News. Direct to your inbox every Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The foreign office told ITV News in a statement: &#8220;We are supporting the family of a British man who has died in Spain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man\u2019s identity has not yet been released. It was not immediately clear if he lived in Spain or had gone paragliding as part of a holiday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Palau de Noguera is an hour and a half south of the Pyrenees mountains, and a short distance from the paragliding hotspot of \u00c0ger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Want a quick and expert briefing on the biggest news stories? Listen to our latest podcasts to find out What You Need To Know\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 63-year-old British man has died in a paragliding accident in north-east Spain after he got &#8220;tangled up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2876,19650,19630,19629,19628,16239,17],"class_list":["post-42552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-british-nationality","tag-emergency-medical-service","tag-fire-brigades","tag-palau-de-noguera","tag-paragliding-accident","tag-regional-government","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}