Elderly Swiss man rescued in Mexico

Mexican authorities have rescued an 80-year-old Swiss man with signs of severe malnutrition and dehydration after two days lost in a national park.

Mexican officials have rescued an 80-year-old Swiss man who had been lost for two days in a vast national park.

Civil Protection officials said late on Friday that they located the man, identified as Max Saeff, that morning in the Colima Volcano National Park in western Mexico.

However the region is so difficult to access that they had to wait until the afternoon for a helicopter to come pick him up, officials said in a brief statement.

Saeff, a resident of the city of Guadalajara, "showed signs of severe malnutrition, dehydration," and had light head bruises, the statement read.

Saeff was reported missing on Wednesday, just hours after he entered the park where the 3800 metre-high Colima volcano - one of the most active in Mexico - is located.


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