A man has been hospitalised after he fell into a city centre waterway on New Year’s Day.
Emergency crews were scrambled to the River Irwell near Water Street, just off Liverpool Road, shortly after 8pm on Sunday (January 1) evening. The man has been taken to hospital ‘as a precaution’, the Manchester Evening News has been told.
In all, police, fire, and ambulance crews attended the scene, near to Trinity Way for just under an hour, a spokesperson for Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) said. They also confirmed specialist water rescue equipment was deployed to save the man.
