From a height of 25 meters, the 4 -year -old boy fell to escape his parents’ attention on a dangerous path a few meters before Neda’s small waterfall.

According to the testimony of the owner of a tavern from Platania, Messinia, Dimitris Antonopoulos, who was on the spot shortly after the child’s fall, his parents, the father of Guatemala and the mother from Germany, were just behind the child and fell.

“The child was free in front of the parents. Before the small waterfall in an isom, the child fell into the river from a height of 25 meters, hitting the fall on a tree. When I arrived the child was alive but in bad condition, his father had uploaded it with someone else, “Mr. Antonopoulos described in speaking to the ilialive.gr.

Speaking of the trail, Mr. Antonopoulos described it as dangerous. “It’s not only where you walk the danger, but also on top of the rocks,” he said.

He suggested that there should be another safer trail to make access to waterfalls safely. He even remembered that he had been an accident last year with the injury of a 27 -year -old on the trail.

Complaints about Surprise

Mr. Antonopoulos, along with the above, complained that people who bring tourists to see the waterfalls, without licenses and security measures in the area, and stressed that measures should be taken to enjoy the beauty of nature safely in Neda.

The tragedy occurred on Sunday afternoon in the Neda Gorge on the borders of Ilia – Messinia.

Immediately sounded an alarm and there was a call for help, through the emergency number 112. The initial reports to the Fire Brigade referred to a father and son who were injured after a fall in the gorge near the orifice.

Immediate forces of the Fire, the Police and the EKAB were directly mobilized. 18 firefighters rushed to the scene, the 6th EMAK mountaineering team and the special team “IKAROS” with a drone of the Regional Fire Administration of Western Greece. At the same time, helicopter assistance of the General Staff of the National Defense was requested by the 120 PEA.

After the firefighters first arrived there. Cretans were looking for the child and the father. Eventually, shortly thereafter it was found that the father was not injured but only the 4 -year -old boy and this is very seriously in the head with injuries and probably in the spine. A doctor who saw it found his heavy clinical picture. The EKAB ambulance, who arrived at the scene, took over the little kid a few meters above to reach the Air Force helicopter.