A day out for a grandmother and her grandsoon ended in disaster when they found themselves in hospital after being struck by a electricity pole as they walked down the street
A seven-year-old boy and his grandmother have been rushed to hospital after an electricity pole fell on them in Gran Canaria.
Emergency services were called to Barranquera Honda Street, municipality of Firgas at 6.38pm on Wednesday, September 24. The Emergency and Security Coordination Centre (CECOES) 1 1 2 of the Government of the Canary Islands received several calls warning that a truck had become caught in the cables of an electric and telephone pole, uprooting it and causing it to fall on a minor and his grandmother.
Volunteer firefighters of Firgas along with the Civil Guard and three vehicles from Canary Islands Emergency Service (SUC): one medicalized ambulance, one sanitized ambulance, and one basic life support ambulance rushed to the scene.
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Upon arrival the child, aged seven years old, who at the time of initial care, suffered several serious injuries and was transported by medical ambulance from the SUC to the Maternal and Child University Hospital of the Canary Islands.
His grandmother who, at the initial time of care, presented several moderate injuries, was transferred in a basic life support ambulance from the SUC to the Doctor Negrín University Hospital of Gran Canaria.
On the same day a body was found in the search for a missing British tourist who disappeared from his Spanish hotel over the weekend, police confirmed. Authorities say they have yet to formally identity the man, who was found dead in woods near the Costa Brava resort of Lloret de Mar.
Police, firefighters and emergency medical responders were sent to the scene. It is not yet clear what the cause of death was but police sources said this afternoon there were no obvious signs of violence on the body. While police in the UK are understood to have been made aware of the discovery, and informed Josh’s loved ones, in case it is confirmed the body found is his.
UK holidaymaker Josh Rogers has been missing for several days. Local reports indicated that investigators suspect the body could be Josh’s. Well-placed sources confirmed this afternoon they were still awaiting the results of tests to officially establish who the dead man was, but admitted it was “highly likely” it was the British tourist.