Rescue under way after kite surfer injured off Fife coast
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Police confirmed that they were called to the Shell Bay area near Elie, at 12.10pm this afternoon.
The Scottish Ambuilance Service, along with the coastguard are also in attendance.
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Hide AdA spokesperson for the Coastguard, said: “At 12.15pm today Scottish Ambulance asked for HM Coastguard assistance following a report of an incident involving a kite surfer (the original incident report referred to a paraglider) at Largo Bay in Fife.
A Senior Coastguard Operations Officer and Coastguard Rescue Teams from Leven and Kinghorn were sent as well as the RNLI lifeboats from Anstruther.”
A spokesman for the Scottish Ambulance Service said: “We received a call at 12.05pm today to attend to a patient near Shell Bay.
“We dispatched two ambulance crews, our Special Operations Response Team, Helimed and a trauma team to the scene.”
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