Injured casualty airlifted from cliffs 3/3/13
An injured man has been airlifted from cliffs in Point this evening.
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The man, who is thought to have hurt his leg, slipped while walking along a stretch of undulating ground between a row of crofts and the indented cliff tops at Garrabost in Point on the east side of Lewis around 7.30pm.
He is believed to have fallen some 20 feet on a shingle shore in the dark and, unable to climb up due to his injury, was trapped in a small cove.
The man raised the alarm by dialling 999 on his mobile phone and coastguard volunteers trained in rope rescues rushed to the scene.
Along with the winchman from the Stornoway coastguard rescue helicopter, they tended to the injured man and strapped him up to be winched onboard the hovering aircraft.
An hour after he had fallen, the man was landed at the emergency and accident department of the Stornoway hospital and is being treated by medics tonight. There is no word on his condition.