The Forestry Department immediately mobilized to locate an elderly man who had gone missing in the Machaira Forest.
This afternoon, the Lythrodonta Forest Station received a call from a Larnaca resident who reported that a close relative of his, an elderly man, had become disoriented and was in an unknown location within the Machaira National Forest Park.
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An officer from the Forestry Department immediately contacted the elderly man by phone and, using the information he provided as well as the characteristics of the area he described, instructions were given to a forest patrol to locate him.
The forest patrol, accompanied by an official from the Forestry Department, went to the area and managed to locate him immediately.
The elderly man was in good health and was picked up by members of his family.
The immediate mobilization and the Forestry Department staff’s knowledge of the forest road network and the area were crucial, as noted in a related announcement, to his quick and safe recovery.
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