By Cathy Elelman • Published: 27 Jun 2020 • 19:20
Credit: Twitter/Emergencias 112 Twitter @E112Andalucia
A LANDSLIDE trapped and killed a labourer working on laying pipes in Velez-Blanco on Friday, the Andalucia regional government’s 112 emergency service reported. The call came through in the early evening that a worker was trapped in a ditch on the Balsa de Lara lane. Guardia Civil, the Levante firefighting service, Local Police and Velez-Blanco Civil Protection rushed to the scene, while an EPES health emergencies team flew in by helicopter. Sadly, the emergencies team could only confirm the death of the 51-year old. Firefighters rescued the body from the ditch.
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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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