A 29-year-old man suffered fatal injuries after falling hundreds of metres while at a ski resort in southern Bulgaria.
The tourist was said to have been part of a group taking pictures of the surrounding scenery when he lost his balance and fell from a height of around 600 metres (1,900 feet) at the resort in Bankso, on Tuesday afternoon.
He was found by a mountain rescue service team and taken to a hospital in the nearby town of Razlog in a serious condition with multiple injuries, emergency services said.
The victim – who was an Irish national – was initially going to be taken by the country’s only air ambulance, but ‘due to a technical malfunction’ the journey was aborted, per Novinite.
He was instead transported by snowmobile before being transferred to an ambulance.
Authorities are now investigating why the helicopter experienced a malfunction.
The injured tourist was taken to a hospital in critical condition where ‘life-saving measures were taken, and a full assessment of his injuries was carried out,’ Dr Valentin Belchev said.
However he remained in a critical condition and died on Wednesday.
