3 Jan, 2021 @ 13:52
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Police rescue woman after mountain hike on Costa del Sol turns into disaster

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A HIKE in the Mijas (Malaga) mountains turned into drama when a woman fell and broke her leg.

A police mountain rescue unit rushed to the scene as darkness fell on ney year’s Day when her husband and friend called for help.

Cops say their task was made more urgent as none of the walkers were wearing warm clothing suitable for the falling temperatures as the evening drew on.

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Rescuers carried the woman to safety

Rescuers say the 55-year-old woman suffered serious multiple breaks to her right leg in the incident.

The victim remained conscious, but was unable to move when disaster struck on the excursion at an area known as La Bola.

After finding her, officers gave her first aid, immobilised her leg and placed her on a stretcher.

They then spent two hours carrying her to safety before she was transferred to a medical centre in Alhaurin El Grande.

Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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