Two dead in skydiving accident in US

Two skydivers collided in mid-air and died Tuesday after plummeting to the ground with collapsed parachutes in the southwestern United States, police said. The accident happened at a skydiving facility in Arizona when the daredevils were about 200-300 feet (60-90 metres) above the ground, Police Sergeant Brian Jerome of the town of Eloy told the Arizona Republic newspaper. Andrew Baker, another diver in the air at the time, said the accident happened while some 200 people were staging a simultaneous jump and trying to hook up in mid-air.