Emergency Management Service rescuers evacuate injured foreign mountaineers from Tetnuldi Mountain in Georgia's north
The Service added that the rescue operation has still continued as there have been remaining four other members of the tourist group, from which one had fallen into a crevasse. Photo: Emergency Management Service.
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Georgian rescuers have saved a group of injured tourists stranded near Tetnuldi Mountain in the north-western Svaneti region of Georgia in an ongoing rescue mission, the Emergency Management Service said on Saturday.
The Service said it had received a SOS message from the International Observation and Search Centre and had sent a group of firemen and rescuers to the specified location, with “full mountain equipment”, and noted due to difficult geographical location and weather conditions a border police helicopter had been used to transfer two injured mountaineers to a hospital.
The Service added that the rescue operation has still continued as there have been remaining four other members of the tourist group, from which one had fallen into a crevasse.
Rescuers of the Emergency Management Service of Georgia and a border police helicopter crew have been mobilised to rescue a group of tourists from Tetnuldi Mountain in the north-western Svaneti region of Georgia, the Service announced on Friday.
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