An 8-year-old French boy was rescued this Friday by firefighters after falling into a volcanic crater in the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador) about 100 meters deep, as updated by the Galapagos National Park in a statement.
The event occurred in one of the two craters that make up the Los Gemelos complex, one of the tourist attractions on the island of Santa Cruz, the most populated in the Ecuadorian archipelago, located in the center of the island area.
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The boy, who according to what he could know EFE by sources close to the rescue presents head trauma and facial injuries, is currently “under observation”, after being transferred to the Hospital República del Ecuador, in Puerto Ayora, the urban center of Santa Cruz.
“The details of the fall are still unknown, but, fortunately, the rapid intervention of rescuers, trained for these emergencies, was able to remove it from the bottom of the crater, more than 100 meters away,” explained the Galapagos National Park.
Firefighters, police officers, National Park rangers, personnel from the Ministry of Public Health and other volunteers participated in the rescue operation.
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Thanks to the rapid intervention of the rescuers to need to remove it from the bottom of the crater
It is the second unusual emergency that has arisen this week in the Galapagos, after a Mexican tourist with US nationality was bitten by a shark while snorkeling around Mosquera islet on Tuesday.
Located about a thousand kilometers west of the continental coasts of Ecuador, The Galapagos were declared in 1978 as a natural heritage of humanity and it is the second largest marine reserve on the planet, considered one of the best preserved in the world, as well as the main tourist attraction in Ecuador.
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