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Two individuals are trapped after ice collapsed throughout a tour of a collapse an Iceland glacier, police stated.
First responders acquired a name simply earlier than 15:00 native time (16:00 BST) on Sunday concerning the ice collapse within the Breidamerkurjökull glacier within the nation’s south.
A bunch of 25 folks had been on a tour with a information on the time.
Four folks had been hit by ice. Two had been rescued with severe accidents, whereas rescuers had been nonetheless looking for the opposite two as of twenty-two:00 BST, in keeping with native media.
Local information shops reported that 200 folks had been engaged on the rescue operation that may proceed into the night time.
Police stated of their press launch round 18:00 that an ice cave had collapsed.
However, Icelandic information outlet Visir quoted Sveinn Kristján Rúnarsson, a senior police officer, as saying folks had been really standing in a ravine between the cave mouths when an ice wall collapsed.
Breidamerkurjökull is what is known as a glacial tongue that extends from massive glacier Vatnajökull and into lagoon Jökulsárlón. The glacial tongue is famed for its ice caves, with teams providing excursions.
