A man was airlifted to hospital in a rescue operation off the Western Isles coast last night.
Coastguard rescue teams received the call around 9:45pm on Thursday, June 6.
A helicopter was dispatched to evacuate a man on a fishing vessel 60 miles north of the coast.
The patient was airlifted to the Western Isles Hospital in Stornoway.
A Coastguard spokesperson said: “We medically evacuated a man from a fishing vessel 60 miles north of the west coast.
“We received the call around 9:45pm last night and airlifted the patient to the Western Isles Hospital.”
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