EIGHT SCOUTS were injured in a road accident on Monday on the A23 when travelling to the 21st ACANAC.
The ACANAC, a national scouting meeting, is running in Idanha-a-Nova in the north of Portugal until Monday and is related to the scouts’ centenary celebrations being held in the UK this week.
The car accident happened after a Mercedes crashed into the back of a Toyota Hiace van carrying the scouts, causing it to flip over.
According to the emergency teams at the scene, only two of the young scouts were seriously injured. One of them, an 18-year-old girl, had several injuries to the lungs and was sent for surgery in the Abrantes central hospital, the nearest health unit.
The girl was them transferred to Hospital São José, one of the central units in Lisbon, where she was still in the Intensive Care Unit at the time The Resident went to press. All the other scouts are already safe at home.
Jamboree
In the meantime, in the UK, around 1,700 Portuguese scouts were representing the country at the 21st Jamboree, the international scout meeting being held in Hyland Park in Essex, 50 kilometres north-east of London (See The Resident, July 27).
Thousands of other scouts are watching and participating in the celebrations organised in many countries around the world.
On Wednesday (August 1), this human network focused on the sunrise to see the birth of a new centenary of the scout movement.
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