It is the second unusual emergency to occur in the Galapagos this week, after a tourist was bitten by a shark while snorkeling on Tuesday.
An 8-year-old French boy was rescued by firefighters on Friday after falling into a volcanic crater about 100 meters deep in the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador), the Galapagos National Park said in a statement.
The event took place in one of the two craters that make up the Los Gemelos complex, one of the tourist attractions on Santa Cruz Island, the most populous island of the Ecuadorian archipelago, located in the center of the island territory.
The child, who EFE said was able to learn from sources close to the rescue, has head and facial injuries and is currently “under observation”.
“The details of the fall are still unknown, but fortunately the rapid intervention of rescuers trained for these emergencies managed to extract it from the bottom of the crater, more than 100 meters away,” explains the Galapagos National Park.
It is the second unusual emergency to occur in the Galapagos this week, after a Mexican U.S. tourist was bitten by a shark while snorkeling around the islet of Mosquera on Tuesday.
Located about a thousand kilometers west of the continental coasts of Ecuador, the Galapagos was declared a Natural Heritage of Humanity in 1978 and is the second largest marine reserve in the world, which is also considered one of the best preserved in the world. which is the main tourist attraction of Ecuador.
Source: EITB
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