Parachutist hits power line

A MAN died after parachuting from a mobile-phone tower at night and hitting high-voltage power lines, US authorities said.

Arizona’s Pinal County sheriff’s Lieutenant Tamatha Villar said 23-year-old Darrell Dunafon and two friends broke into a mobile-phone tower site 30 miles south of Phoenix and were parachuting off the 400-foot-tall antennae.

Dunafon’s parachute tangled in nearby 12,000-volt power lines and he was shocked with a live wire.