YOUNG MAN FALLS INTO WATER WELL IN CIUDAD ARCE

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Early this morning, members of the Vertical Rescue Unit of Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador, from the Ciudad Arce branch, carried out the rescue of a young man who had fallen into a 12-meter-deep well.

The incident was reported at around 4 a.m. this Friday at Colonia 30 de abril, house 17, in Cantón Flor Amarilla, Ciudad Arce, in La Libertad Centro, when relatives of Saúl Enrique Rodríguez Contreras, 25, heard the young man’s cries for help.

Rescuers from Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador and personnel from Cuerpo de Bomberos de El Salvador responded to the call, installing a mechanism to descend into the well and successfully rescue the young man.

The rescuers from Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador provided him with prehospital care before he was taken to a medical center with injuries to his spine and pelvis.