Serious accident while canyoning in Bovec, the guide was criminally charged

At 10:39 a participant in the gorge of the Fratarca stream was seriously injured. The mountain rescuers of GRS Bovec and the duty team of GRS in Brnik attended to him, and then the SV helicopter transported him to the hospital in Jesenice, reports the Administration for Protection and Rescue. The police found that a 35-year-old citizen of Ireland was seriously injured. The accident occurred due to incorrect use of the safety rope. The guide, who was protecting the casualty, ran out of them, which resulted in a slip and fall.

The police will file criminal charges against the guide who did not provide proper protection on suspicion of causing serious injury, reports PU Nova Gorica.