A man is recovering in hospital after spending hours trapped under fallen boulders at the bottom of a cliff in Co Antrim.
A Coast Guard spokeswoman said the man was transferred to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast.
It is understood he suffered serious injuries.
The alarm was raised at 2.30pm yesterday when a member of the public heard cries for help at the bottom of the 183m-cliff near Fair Head in Co Antrim.
A specialist coastguard team trained in cliff rescue found the man at the base of the cliff pinned by several large boulders that had fallen on him when he was about to begin climbing.
“It was assessed that the safest way to transfer the casualty into the helicopter was to place him on a stretcher and for the Coastguard Rescue Team to take him up the cliff to the waiting helicopter,” the spokeswoman added.
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