A major road in Manchester city centre had to be closed after emergency services rushed to a bridge to reports of a "concern for welfare", performing a dramatic rescue from the canal.
Pictures from Oxford Street this evening, May 1, showed police, ambulance, and fire crews at the scene of the bridge over the river Medlock, next to the Holiday Inn near Oxford Road railway station. The Manchester Evening News understands a man had to be rescued from the canal below, with the fire service taking control of the rescue.
Images from the scene showed members of various emergency services standing around one side of the bridge between the Revolution bar and the Holiday Inn, with a lift from one of the fire engines being extended above the road over the river, which the M.E.N understands crews had to use in order to gain access to the canal above the high walls either side of the bridge.
