A WOMAN has been airlifted to hospital after she was injured on the canal near Weston Rhyn.
The Welsh Air Ambulance was called to a narrowboat on the Llangollen Canal near Station Road, shortly before 12pm on Wednesday (August 3).
A land ambulance also attended and the patient was airlifted to the Royal Stoke University Hospital for further assessment.
A spokesperson for West Midlands Ambulance Service said: “We were called to reports of a patient who had become injured on a narrowboat, near to Station Road, at 11.45am.
"We sent one ambulance, a paramedic officer and the Welsh Air Ambulance to the scene.
"On arrival we discovered a female patient who following treatment was airlifted to Royal Stoke University Hospital for further assessment.”
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