KWAZULU-NATAL. – A man of approximately 44 years old was rescued from an uncovered manhole in Browns Drift Road, Umgeni Park, on Tuesday morning after he reportedly fell into it the previous evening.
According to Marshall Security, members of the public alerted the service to the man's situation at around 08:00. According to initial information, he fell into the manhole at around 20:00 the previous evening and spent the night in it. A coordinated rescue operation by the metropolitan police's search and rescue unit, eThekwini Fire and Rescue, IPSS Medical Rescue and Netcare 911, with support from Marshall Security's special operations team, safely extracted the man from the manhole. He was then taken to hospital for further medical treatment.
This article is an automatic English translation of a Nuusflits article originally published in Afrikaans. Read the Afrikaans original.
