HOLIDAY MAKER AIRLIFTED TO HOSPITAL IN WESTERN ISLES
At 7.40pm
Stornoway Coastguard received a 999 call from a resident on the west coast of South
Harris reporting that a family had got into difficulty swimming from the
beach. Tarbert Coastguard Rescue Team
and the Coastguard helicopter from Stornoway attended and airlifted the
unconscious woman to Western Isles Hospital this evening. The father and two of the children have been
transferred to hospital by ambulance.
The
family with their three sons were on holiday and were swimming from the beach
at Traigh Mhor, near Scarista on the west coast of the island and they got
into difficulty in the water.