RESCUERS were called to a popular North Yorkshire tourist trail for the third time in less than a month after paramedics were unable to locate a woman reported to be having a panic attack.

The Cave Rescue Organisation (CRO) attended the incident on the outward leg of the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail at around 5.20pm on Wednesday.

The 20-year-old woman was reported by a friend to be having a panic attack.

A CRO spokesman said: "With the location still uncertain, team members divided up the route and began to look for the ‘casualty’.

"She did not identify herself to those who were looking for her and walked past some of them, on her way back to the car park.

"Here she was identified, but declined any attention from the Yorkshire Ambulance Service paramedics."

It is the third CRO callout to the Waterfalls Trail in less than a month.

At the end of May, CRO team members assisted a man who had slipped while trying to 'bypass the barrier' to the popular trail, which has since reopened after being closed amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Then, last week, a woman was evacuated there after being 'taken ill'.