A local man said that he had assisted the fire service with a male casualty who had appeared to have fallen from height and landed in the river. The male casualty was unconscious but alive he told me.
Paramedics and Technical Rescue crews gave treatment at the scene and then the casualty was taken by ambulance to hospital. The area under the Viaduct was sealed off as a crime scene until the facts of the incident are made known. It is thought that the man had jumped off the Mann Dam viaduct.
This location has been the scene of many suicides over recent years.
