A third hunter has died in Conejos County, the same general area of the far southern Colorado wilderness where two hunters were killed by lightning earlier this month .

The Conejos County Sheriff’s Office said a 54-year-old man from Tennessee died either late Friday or early Saturday. A group of hunters called for help just before 11:30 p.m. Friday in an unspecified, “remote” location in the South San Juan Wilderness, telling the sheriff’s office that CPR was being performed.

By the time a search and rescue team arrived at the scene, the man had died, the sheriff’s office said. A helicopter recovery wasn’t immediately possible “due to hazardous nighttime conditions” but was done early Saturday morning.

The man’s cause of death was not immediately known Saturday night, but the sheriff’

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