Police say a man has survived after being swept over the Horseshoe Falls in Niagara.
Niagara Regional Police received a call around 4 a.m. Tuesday morning for a person in crisis. Officers saw the man climb a retaining wall, jump into the Niagara River and get swept over the Falls. He was later found sitting on the rocks at the water’s edge, below the Journey Behind the Falls observation platform.
The man was rescued from the lower Niagara River basin and taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Police described the man as a person who was in crisis and said no further details on the incident would be released.