Emergency services and river rescue charity tasked to incident in Derry

A number of emergency services responded to an incident at the River Foyle in the early hours of this morning which has now been classified as a search and recovery operation.
By Kevin Mullan
Published 11th Nov 2020, 09:16 BST
Updated 11th Nov 2020, 09:40 BST
The incident has been classified as a search and recovery operation.The incident has been classified as a search and recovery operation.
The incident has been classified as a search and recovery operation.

The PSNI tasked Foyle Search and Rescue to the incident at 1.44 a.m. this morning.

A spokesperson for the charity said: "Our Emergency Response Teams were assisted by the Northern Ireland Fire Service, Irish Coastguard, Coleraine Coastguard and soon after by the Irish Coastguard Helicopter.

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"Colleagues from the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service remained on standby during the incident. Our Teams were stood down at 06:00hrs with the incident now classed as a search and recovery operation."

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