Another hunter died Friday in southern Colorado’s Conejos County, just over a week after two missing elk hunters who caught national attention were found dead , according to the sheriff’s office.

Conejos County dispatchers received a call for help from hunters in a remote area of the South San Juan Wilderness shortly before 11:30 p.m. Friday, according to a news release from the sheriff’s office. At that time, CPR was already in progress.

Sheriff Garth Crowther immediately activated the Conejos County Search and Rescue team, but the victim, a 54-year-old man from Tennessee, had already died when rescuers arrived, the news release stated.

“Due to hazardous nighttime conditions, it was not safe to conduct a recovery mission with the Flight for Life helicopter,” sheriff’s officials sta

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