Danish soldier dies in parachuting accident on Texel

A Danish soldier died after a parachuting accident on Texel on Sunday. The man was gravely injured in the accident on Sunday afternoon and later succumbed to his injuries, the Danish Ministry of Defense confirmed.

The Ministry said the man was not on Texel for work but on a “privately arranged trip.”

The accident happened around 2:00 p.m. on Sunday afternoon at Paracentrum Texel in De Cocksdorp. According to NH Nieuws, the man fell “from a considerable height.”

Emergency services, including a trauma team deployed to the island by helicopter, spent a long time resuscitating him at the scene before rushing him to the nearest hospital with critical injuries.

It is not yet clear what went wrong with the jump. Forensic investigators from the Koninklijke Marechaussee, a policing force that is part of the Dutch military, are investigating.