rescued

It was fitting that he was rescued by Boy Scouts in the mountains so close to home.

She said she witnessed children being rescued, and tried to help people with broken bones and to calm those in distress.

Despite suffering life-threatening injuries, he regained consciousness and crawled to a road where wildlife rangers rescued him.

Another police officer was injured and a fourth hunted through the bush for hours before she was rescued.

Seventeen people have been rescued and a search is continuing for other passengers who were aboard the dugout canoe that was heading towards Spain's Canary Islands.