A 64-year-old pedestrian fisherman died this Thursday after falling from a cliff in Carrapateira, in the municipality of Aljezur (Faro), the National Maritime Administration (AMN) reported.
AMN said in a statement that the fisherman “allegedly fell from an eight-meter-high cliff during an activity,” stressing that the NCIS psychology department was providing support to his family.
The incident alert was received at 14:09 at the Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination Center (MRCC) in Lisbon and a Lagos Marine Police team was immediately dispatched to the area of the incident, to the lifeboat station vessel. Sagres and the volunteer firefighters of Aljezur and the neighboring municipality of Vila do Bispo.
“Upon arrival at the scene, it was established that the victim, a 64-year-old man, fell into the water while fishing on foot, a surfer who was in the area saw him and prevented the victim’s body from falling away from the shore,” ANM explained.
Maritime authorities also indicated that the body was “recovered from the water” by the crew of the Sagres life-saving station and then transported by ship to the port of Baleira, where the health delegate declared death.
Firefighters from Vila do Bispo were at the port and took the victim’s body to the National Institute of Forensic Medicine and Forensic Medicine in Portimão, AMN also reported.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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