A total of 40 people have been rescued in the last 24 hours by mountain rescuers, 13 of them being taken to hospital, announced Mountain Rescue Service Salvamont Romania on Monday.

In the last 24 hours, 33 calls were placed with the Salvamont National Dispatch Center requesting emergency intervention by mountain rescuers, Salvamont Romania wrote on Facebook.

The most requests, 8 in number, were for Sinaia Mountain Rescue, followed by Brasov Municipality Mountain Rescue, with eight calls, and Lupeni Mountain Rescue, with 4 interventions.

„In these interventions, 39 people were rescued. Of these, 13 were handed over to the ambulance service or SMURD for transportation to hospital, and the rest were allowed to be transported by their relatives’ cars. We also received 24 calls asking for advice and information about different tourist routes in the mountain and ski areas,” the Salvamont representatives say.

AGERPRES