Base jumper dies in accident

American base jumper Ian Flanders has died in a parachute accident during a nature sports festival in eastern Turkey. Flanders plunged into a river and died when his parachute ropes got wrapped around his legs during a jump from the Karanlik canyon in Erzincan province July 21. The 37- year- old from southern California had leaped from an altitude of 2,500 metres. The Erzincan Municipality said the International Nature and Culture Festival was cancelled because of Flanders’ death.