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A teenage miss has been hospitalized aft seemingly surviving a autumn from large tallness into the Corinth Canal under unclear circumstances, authorities said Thursday.
The Coast Guard said its section unit were informed precocious Wednesday that a young miss had fallen into the iconic waterway – that besides attracts suicides – adjacent the cardinal roadworthy span linking the Peloponnese with mainland Greece.
A patrol vessel was mobilized and the teenager “got retired of the water with the assistance of Coast Guard and constabulary unit and members of the public.” She was taken to infirmary archetypal successful Corinth and then successful Athens for further examinations, a Coast Guard statement said.
Local reports said the miss had a backmost wounded and had to swim for astir 20 minutes – under the absorption of rescuers – to a constituent astatine the opening of the canal where she could get out.
It was not instantly wide why rescuers were unable to scope her earlier, though the canal has been closed to shipping since November pending work to stabilize crumbling banks and region tons of world and stone that person tumbled into the water.
Last month, a 17-year-old miss from Athens who had earlier been reported missing was recovered dormant successful the canal, successful a suspected suicide.
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