Durban rehab escapee rescued after scaling cliff in bid for freedom

24 May 2017 - 14:44 By Jeff Wicks
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A paramedic from IPSS Medical Rescue swam across the quarry to the man‚ and managed to guide him down from the ledge and into the water.
A paramedic from IPSS Medical Rescue swam across the quarry to the man‚ and managed to guide him down from the ledge and into the water.
Image: Rescue Care Pty Ltd‏ @rescuecare via Twitter

A 37-year-old man who scaled a cliff in a bid to escape from a Durban drug rehabilitation centre was saved by search and rescue personnel on Wednesday.

The man had become trapped on a ledge above a water-filled quarry in Reservoir Hills.

Police Search and Rescue Unit officers and paramedics arrived at the scene after a passerby reported seeing the stricken man on the rocky outcrop.

A paramedic from IPSS Medical Rescue swam across the quarry to the man‚ and managed to guide him down from the ledge and into the water.

The medic then swam with the man to waiting ambulances on the other side of the quarry.

He was treated for pain to his lower body as well as symptoms of hypothermia.

-TMG Digital/TimesLIVE

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