A 45-year-old man has died in a parachute accident in Västerås. It was around ten o’clock on Saturday that the accident happened.
The man was taken by ambulance to hospital but died there from his injuries.
– It was a very experienced skydiver who seems to have had a malfunction in his parachute, says Sven Mörtberg who is a national instructor at the Swedish Parachute Association.
The next of kin have been notified and the accident will be investigated on behalf of the Swedish Transport Agency.
See more about what is suspected to have gone wrong in the player above.