Minor boy survives after falling 100-ft from Grand Canyon

It took dozens of rescue crews and a team from the Grand Canyon National Park two hours to pull Wyatt Kauffman to safety on August 8 after falling off a ledge at the popular tourist site's North Rim, reports the BBC.He was flown to hospital with serious injuries but has since been discharged.Speaking to the Phoenix-based KPNX television station that he had fallen while moving out of the way so people could take pictures.He said he had been squatting down and holding onto a rock with one hand when he lost his grip and started to fall back."After the fall, I don't remember anything after that," he told Phoenix television station KPNX while in hospital."I just remember somewhat waking up and being in the back of an ambulance and a helicopter and getting on a plane and getting here."Among his injuries were nine broken vertebrae, a ruptured spleen, broken hand and a collapsed lung, the BBC reported.--IANSksk

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