A witness has told how devastated pals of a man who died at the Falls of Falloch desperately battled to save him for almost one hour.
We told how emergency services raced to the popular Scots beauty spot, near Crianlarich in Stirlingshire, after the alarm was raised at around 5.20pm on Saturday, July 9. Ambulance crews attended but the body of a 24-year-old man was recovered from the water by the Police Scotland Dive and Marine Unit.
An onlooker said the young man's friends jumped into the water to try and save him and were searching the waterfall for 40 minutes. Meanwhile others at the scene phoned emergency services as folk rallied together to try and save the stricken swimmer.
