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Schoolgirl airlifted off cross-channel ferry

by Conrad Murray — last modified 03-07-2006 03:57

A girl on a school trip has been airlifted from a cross-channel ferry after she severed a finger in an accident onboard the vessel.

Coastguards lifted the girl off the Brittany Ferries service, which was five miles out of Poole Harbour, Dorset, en route to Cherbourg, France. It is not yet known what happened in the incident, which took place early on Sunday afternoon.

Coastguard helicopter Whiskey Bravo flew the girl to hospital in Salisbury. A Portsmouth Coastguard spokeswoman said the girl had received treatment from a nurse on board the Barfleur ferry, but she "had cut her fingers so badly she needed to go to hospital immediately".

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