
Mumbai Police Rescues Trekker Using Makeshift Stretcher, Video Goes Viral
NDTV
The video shared by Mumbai Police has been viewed more than seven lakh times and received over 33,000 likes.
Mumbai Police's quick response team (QRT) helped an injured woman trekker in Maharashtra's Raigad district. The entire rescue operation was captured on camera and shared on Mumbai Police's Instagram handle. The post said that the QRT noticed the trekker had fractured her leg and built a makeshift stretcher to carry her using their tracksuits. The rescue team then started a careful descent, carrying the injured woman to the base camp. The entire journey was completed in about two hours, the police further said.
"The new recruits of our Quick Response Team, on their way down from a trek while training at Karnala Fort, noticed a trekker had fractured her leg," the police said on Instagram.
