Spain: a Dutch tourist rescued after 18 days in a ravine

Spain: a Dutch Tourist Rescued After 18 Days in a ravine

On Wednesday 6th of July 2011, some rescuers saved a 48 year old Dutch tourist who had just spent 18 days trapped in a ravine in southern Spain.

That woman, Mary-Anne Goossens, was uninjured after the incident but she survived by drinking only water without food.

Antonio Diaz, the spokesman of the family declared that the woman was walking by the side of the river before she was mysteriously discovered to be lost some few moments later.

In a statement, the civil guard said that she was trapped in a very deep hole, without a rope or any rescuing equipment, and that was really in a desperate situation

It was on Wednesday that the Dutch tourist was discovered by some walkers near Nerja, a coastal town in the province of Malaga and she was fortunately evacuated by helicopter. The rescuers sent that woman to the hospital and the medical staff found the woman was stable and in perfect good health. She is conscious and she can talk normally as usual. Following further medical procedures, that woman can leave hospital the following day on Thursday.

The hiker went to Nerja for holiday on the 15th of June but she was reported lost by her son several days later according to the civil guard. The woman was surprised by the night as she walked near the coastal river of Chillar, said the spokesman for the family. After spending the night outside, "she found a place where there was water, and remained there," a hole in the river, he added. For 18 days she did not eat but drank water, said the Civil Guard. The rescue, said the Civil Guard, an operation was "difficult" because of the depth of the water and "the weakness" which was the tourist. However, it "suffered no significant injury."

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