A minor has lost her life this Sunday and a 24-year-old woman has been seriously injured due to a rockfall from the walls of the pools in the Fontcalda gorges, an inland bathing area in the municipality of Gandesa (Terra Alta) in Tarragona.
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The Generalitat Firefighters received the accident alert at 3:20 p.m., immediately activating the Mountain Special Actions Group (GRAE) helicopter along with a doctor from the Medical Emergency System (SEM) and three ground support teams, Bombers reported.
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Medical services were unable to save the minor’s life, while rescue teams managed to extract the injured young woman, who was evacuated in serious condition by an SEM helicopter to the Joan XXIII University Hospital in Tarragona after being previously transported to the town’s football field.
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Meanwhile, citizen security patrols of the Mossos d’Esquadra set up a safe area in the zone so that the victims’ family members and companions could receive attention from the SEM psychological support staff.
Subsequently, agents from the autonomous police’s Mountain Unit, with the support of a helicopter, proceeded to extract the victim’s body once the investigation unit deemed it appropriate.
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