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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
National
Jamie Pyatt

'Cursed' beach where Irish man died in paragliding accident claims two more lives in 48 hours

The South African beach where Munster rugby coach Greig Oliver was killed in a tragic paragliding accident is said to be "cursed" by superstitious locals after two more deaths on it within 48 hours.

The elite performance officer at Munster drowned on Monday after a mid-air collision with another tandem paraglider above Cape Town which sent him and his pilot crashing into the surf 50m below.

The other pilot and his passenger landed safely but the pilot of Oliver’s paraglider was forced to cut away his main chute and deploy the reserve and they spiralled into the choppy Atlantic with 5-foot swells.

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