BREAKING: Huge rescue mission as cyclist rushed to hospital after falling from bridge and plummeting into river
A cyclist was rushed to hospital after falling from a bridge and plummeting into a river on Sunday afternoon .
Paramedics from the North West Ambulance Service requested assistance from the fire service as the man had become 'inaccessible'.Crews performed a 'complex rope rescue' to lift the man out of the river. He was left injured in the fall and was taken to hospital from the scene. A spokesperson for the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service said: "Earlier today paramedics asked for firefighters to help them at an incident where a man riding a bicycle has fallen from a bridge and landed in a river, inaccessible to the paramedics.
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