A MOUNTAIN biker has been seriously injured and airlifted to hospital after a "nasty fall" between Hereford and Abergavenny.
Central Beacons Mountain Rescue Team said it was called at 1pm on Saturday (June 5) to the injured biker near Llanvihangel Crucorney.
Gwent Police asked for mountain rescue help at around 1pm, with the biker suffering a "seriously injured leg". A Welsh Air Ambulance helicopter landed at the scene, off the A465 near the Herefordshire-Monmouthshire border.
"The gentleman had taken a nasty fall and required medical aid on a seriously injured leg," a spokesperson for the team, based in Merthyr Tydfil, said.
"We arrived to find two Longtown [Mountain Rescue] Team colleagues on scene with the air ambulance crew who’d provided medical treatment, we then carried the gentleman onto the aircraft.
"From there he was airlifted to hospital and we wish him a full and speedy recovery."
Members from the Longtown Mountain Rescue Team, based in Abergavenny, also attended.
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