The fire department on Monday morning rescued a man trapped in a manhole in Ayios Athanasios in Limassol,

The department’s spokesman Andreas Kettis said that firefighters were sent down three different shafts to locate and recover the trapped man.

He was found in a state of panic, disoriented and with abrasions on his body. He was recovered from the hole, handed to the police, and subsequently rushed to Limassol general hospital.