WOMAN tELLS OF BID tO SAvE MAN PuLLED FROM TAy

A WOMAN has spoken of witnessing frantic attempts by paramedics to save a man pulled from the River Tay.

Claire Nicholson said medics spent about 40 minutes trying to revive a man lifted from the water at Camperdown Docks yesterday afternoon.

The man, believed to be in his sixties, died later in Ninewells Hospital.

Emergency services scrambled to the scene near Dundee’s Sea Cadets centre at around 1pm.

CPR was administered and a defibrillator was used to try to revive the man.

The exact nature of how the man came to be in the water is not yet clear and an investigation is now under way.

Ms Nicholson, who lives adjacent to the docks, said: “I had come back to the apartment and I came out on to the balcony when I saw a police car on the right-hand side.

“There were a couple of people in plain clothes near the water.

“At first I thought it was a dog or something that had fallen in.

“I didn’t actually see how the man managed to get into the water.

“I could see a guy splashing.

“The emergency crews then just jumped in and they pulled him out.

“I could see them working on him really hard and it was only then that I realised how serious it was.

“I think they spent about 40 minutes giving him CPR.

“The next thing they took him in the ambulance and I was just hoping he would make it.

“I’m just really sad for the family.

“There’s nothing more that the emergency services could have done, they worked on him so hard.”

A spokesman for Police Scotland said: “A man was recovered from the River Tay and taken to Ninewells Hospital.

“It was not possible to revive him and he has sadly died.

“Inquiries are ongoing to identify him and notify his next of kin at t his time, and also to establish the circumstances as to how he came to be in the river.

“If you believe you have any i nformation which could assist us, please call 101 or speak to any police officer.”