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​Police: Swiss man dies while skydiving in Arizona

ELOY, Ariz. -- Authorities say a Swiss man has died while skydiving in Eloy, Arizona, CBS affiliate KPHO reported.

It's the third skydiving death in Eloy, about 60 miles south of Phoenix, since Dec. 31.

Eloy police say officers responded to reports of a skydiver down about 10:45 a.m. Tuesday at the Skydive Arizona facility.

They say the man was a veteran skydiver with more than 600 jumps logged.

His name is being withheld until his relatives and the consulate in Switzerland can be notified.

Police didn't immediately release any details of the death, saying only that the department would be working closely with the Federal Aviation Administration "to see if there was any type of equipment failure."

A call to Skydive Arizona for comment on the latest death wasn't immediately returned.

On New Year's Eve, 37-year-old Ronald Mazzola Jr. of Salt Lake City died while attempting to carry out a skydiving jump at the Eloy facility, KPHO reported.

Geoffrey Loy, 34, of Boulder, Colorado, died in a jump there on January 21, KPHO said. Witnesses said his parachute collapsed during his jump.

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