An 8-year-old French boy who fell into a volcanic crater on the Galapagos Islands was rescued

An eight-year-old French boy was rescued by firefighters this Friday after falling into a volcanic crater in Galapagos Islands (Ecuador) about 100 meters deep, according to a press release from the Galapagos National Park.

The event took place in one of the two craters that make up the Los Gemelos complex, one of the tourist attractions on Santa Cruz Island, the most populated in the Ecuadorian archipelago, located in the center of the island area. The child, who according to EFE was able to find out from sources close to the rescue, presents head and face injurieshe is currently “under observation”, after being transferred to the Hospital of the Republic of Ecuador, in Puerto Ayora, the urban center of Santa Cruz.

“The details of the fall are still unknown, but luckily with the quick intervention of rescuers, trained for these emergencies, they managed to pull him out of the bottom of the crater, more than 100 meters away,” explained the Galapagos National Park.

Firefighters, police officers, National Park guards, employees of the Ministry of Public Health and other volunteers participated in the rescue operation. This is the second unusual emergency to arise in the Galapagos this week, after a Mexican tourist with US citizenship was bitten by a shark while snorkeling around Mosquero Islet on Tuesday.

Located about a thousand kilometers west of the continental coast of Ecuador, the Galapagos was declared a natural heritage of humanity in 1978 and is the second largest marine reserve on the planet, which is also considered one of the best preserved in the world. that it is the main tourist attraction of Ecuador