{"id":304613,"date":"2018-10-24T04:56:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T04:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=304613"},"modified":"2018-10-24T04:56:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T04:56:32","slug":"himachal-pradesh-singaporean-paraglider-found-dead-in-kangra-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/himachal-pradesh-singaporean-paraglider-found-dead-in-kangra-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Himachal Pradesh: Singaporean paraglider found dead in Kangra Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-304614 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Choong-300x254.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Choong-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Choong-768x651.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Choong-696x590.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Choong-496x420.jpg 496w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Choong.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kok\u00a0Choonk Na, a paraglider of Singaporean descent who went missing while paragliding in the Bir-Billing area of Himachal Pradesh on Monday was found dead on Tuesday in\u00a0Kangra\u00a0valley.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sources said 53-year-old Chook, an ex-commando in the Singapore army, was a free flyer. His body was spotted by a team deputed to locate another missing paraglider, Jos Lewis from Spain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the Baijnath Sub Divisional Magistrate (SDM), The exact reason behind Chook\u2019s death would only be known after the post-mortem report was received.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">SDM further said that another missing paraglider, 50-year-old\u00a0Jose Lewis\u00a0from Spain, was found alive who was missing since Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A number of foreign and domestic paragliders have swarmed the valley in the run-up to the\u00a0Paragliding\u00a0Pre-World Cup\u00a0to be held in\u00a0Bir\u00a0Billing on October 27. Around 160 paragliders including foreigners have registered for the competition.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kok\u00a0Choonk Na, a paraglider of Singaporean descent who went missing while paragliding in the Bir-Billing area of Himachal Pradesh on Monday was found dead on Tuesday in\u00a0Kangra\u00a0valley. Sources said 53-year-old Chook, an ex-commando in the Singapore army, was a free flyer. His body was spotted by a team deputed to locate another missing paraglider, Jos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":304614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2898,2009,2014],"tags":[7734,7736,1340,3909,7733,7735],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304613"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304616,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304613\/revisions\/304616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}