Police rescue foreigners in distress |18 August 2016

The police mounted a search party to rescue a Sudanese male visitor aged 35 years accompanied by his two-year-old daughter who got lost while exploring La Digue over the weekend.

Call for help from the man was received on Friday August 12 at around 2.50pm. Helping the regular police with this search and rescue operations were officers from the Response Services Unit and also Fire and Rescue Services Agency based on the island.

Keeping in touch with the distressed Sudanese through his mobile, the officers finally found them among boulders in the mountain at Anse Coco at around 10pm.

In a separate incident at Anse Marie Louise on Mahé, the Marine Police reacted to a call that a French visitor was in distress at sea. The call came at around 11.10am and officers were on scene at around 11.30.

Reaching the scene at Anse Marie Louise, the officers discovered that two residents, each in a canoe, had been the first to respond in trying to rescue the distressed man but were some 300 metres off the beach as they also were getting difficulty to come ashore because of strong currents pulling outward.

Upon their arrival on the scene and quick assessment of the situation, the Marine Police which had dispatched five men took some 10 minutes to get all three men safe to the beach.

The police then transported the 46-years-old rescued French visitor to the Anse Royale hospital where he was attended to, then referred to Seychelles Hospital for further examinations. His condition is stable.