Four Ukrainians who crossed the border in the Maramureş Mountains, recovered by Salvamontists. One was taken to the hospital
Salvamont intervention (photo: Daniel Mihailescu / AFP / Profimedia)
Four Ukrainians who crossed the border in Romania through the Maramureş Mountains and who asked for the help of the lifeguards were recovered from the mountain on Sunday night and handed over to the authorities, announced Dan Benga, the director of the County Public Service (SPJ) Salvamont Maramureș.
The search-sauta action lasted all night and became complicated after midnight, said Dan Benga, quoted by Agerpres.
“Three Ukrainian citizens aged 21, 26 and 40 were found after about 6 and a half hours. One of the people had a feverish state, probably due to physical exhaustion, and another Ukrainian was with a two -day wound, infected and swollen to the right upper limb.
Arriving at the base of the mountain, one of the Ukrainians was transported to the medical unit for investigations and treatment, and the other two were taken over by the competent authorities to carry out the procedures imposed in such cases, he said.
Another Ukrainian asked to be saved from the mountain
While the rescue team was evaluating the intervention with the border guards, the crews received another call for the recovery of a Ukrainian citizen.
“While the lifeguards together with the colleagues from the Valea Vişeului Border Police were summarizing the rescue action, a request for emergency aid from an Ukrainian citizen in an EU member state regarding another 34-year-old Ukrainian citizen, who was not in the Maramureş. Moving, needing specialized help (…). taken over by the competent authorities for carrying out the legal procedures imposed ”, said Dan Benga.
The two operations of extracting from the mountain of the Ukrainian citizens were carried out with the support of the border guards in the Valea Vişeului and Poienile de Munte, border localities with Ukraine.
