Serres: They defied the ice to save a horse who fell into a shaft

Operation rescue of a horse that had fallen into a shaft was set up in Upper Vrondu. The , of the wilds found freely in the area, fell into the shaft late Saturday night (23.11.2024). Passing through the site, they spotted the horse that made sounds through the shaft and alerted the villagers of Upper Vrondus to Serres. Two of them, Nikos Halatsis and Dimitris Michoglou, recruited their agricultural tractors and started the rescue operation with the thermometer pointing at that time minus 8 points. After forty minutes they managed to get the horse out of the shaft. “We heard his crying, while his mother was nearby. When he came out he looked us in the eye, he stayed for a minute next to us and then followed his mother”, they described the touching moments, he reports the epiloges.tv. “We felt tremendous satisfaction that we saved a life,” he told ERT Sirron Nikos Halatsis, describing the adventure of the little horse. “The cold was chilly, but we couldn’t leave it there because it wouldn’t live…” he added.