ELDERLY MAN LOSES CONTROL AND FALLS INTO DRAINAGE DITCH IN APOPA

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Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador, Apopa branch, carried out the rescue of an elderly man who lost control this morning on Avenida Ciguatan, in Colonia Popotlán, Apopa.

The victim, identified as Salvador Espinoza Díaz, 91, said that he was sitting on the median of Avenida Ciguatan when he tried to stand up, lost his balance, and fell to the bottom of the drainage ditch, approximately two meters deep.

Responders from Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador, from Apopa, arrived at the scene to remove the elderly man from the bottom of the drainage ditch. He had suffered several traumas, so they stabilized him so he could be taken to a medical center.

Meanwhile, on kilometer 13 of the Troncal del Norte highway, a woman was struck by a public-transportation minibus.

Responders from Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador, Apopa branch, assisted the victim, who had suffered trauma to her right lower limb, and she was taken to a hospital.