By Cathy Elelman • Published: 01 Jun 2020 • 13:06
STUCK: The 60-year old’s paraglider canopy got stuck on rocks CREDIT: Guardia Civil
A 60-YEAR old paraglider had to be evacuated by helicopter after suffering injuries in an accident in Pulpi at midday on Sunday. The emergency services reported that the 60-year old’s paraglider canopy got hooked onto rocks when he came down in a difficult to access area of the Sierra Aguilon mountains in Pilar de Jaravia Guardia Civil, Local Police, Bomberos del Levante firefighters and an EPES Public Health Emergency Company team went to his rescue after a member of the public called 112. But they had to call in a Guardia Civil rescue helicopter from Granada, which flew the injured man to Torrecardenas hospital in Almeria city.
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Cathy Elelman is the local writer for the Costa de Almeria edition of the Euro Weekly News.
Based in Mojacar for the last 21 years, Cathy is very much part of the local community and is always well and truly up on all the latest news and events going on in this region of Spain.
Her top goals are to do the best job she can informing the local English-speaking community, visitors to the area and the wider world about about the news in Almeria, to learn something new every day, and to embrace very new challenge this fast-changing world brings her way.
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