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| River Foyle: 26 rescued after boat capsizes | |
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| Twenty-six people have been rescued from the River Foyle after a boat capsized on Saturday afternoon. | |
| It happened on the river between Magheramason in County Tyrone and Carrigans in County Donegal. | |
| The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service, the PSNI and the Irish coastguard were among those involved in the rescue. | |
| The ambulance service said all 26 people have been taken to Londonderry's Altnagelvin Hospital where they are being treated for mild hypothermia. | |
| The boat capsized at about 14:00 BST on Saturday. | The boat capsized at about 14:00 BST on Saturday. |
| John McPoland from the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service said: "All services sprung into action very quickly and thankfully everybody was taken from the water. | |
| "What we've found today is that our capacity to respond to such an incident was severely tested for all emergency services and it's a tribute to all the services involved that they were able to pull together so quickly and ensure there was no tragedies involved in today's incident." | |
| SDLP Foyle assembly member Mark H Durkan tweeted: "Just been at scene of major incident response at River Foyle, think everyone out of water ok. Well done emergency teams!" |