Two persons are nonetheless lacking and one is hospitalized after an ice cave collapsed on Sunday.
At the very least one individual died when an ice cave partially collapsed whereas a bunch of vacationers visited Breidamerkurjökull in southern Iceland.
Two individuals had been significantly injured in Sunday’s incident, with one succumbing to his accidents on the scene and the opposite being airlifted to a hospital within the capital Reykjavik.
Suduran police mentioned: “4 individuals had been trapped underneath the ice and two had been rescued from the ice with critical accidents.”
“The seek for the 2 individuals trapped within the ice cave remains to be ongoing,” the assertion added.
Native information web site Visir mentioned all accessible rescue groups had been looking, besides for 3 helicopters from the Icelandic Coast Guard and the Danish Navy.
Visier continued that as a result of the terrain was too rugged to carry giant icebreakers to the positioning, rescue groups had to make use of hand-held saws and different instruments to interrupt the ice.
The operation was suspended after dusk as a consequence of harmful circumstances, however police mentioned it might resume on Monday morning.
Police mentioned Sunday that the decision concerning the cave-in got here in at 3 p.m., when 4 of the 25 vacationers and their guides had been struck by ice whereas exploring the cave.
The ice cave close to the Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon the place the incident passed off is a well-liked vacationer vacation spot.
The collapse can also be unlikely to be associated to Friday’s volcanic eruption in southeastern Iceland, which occurred about 300 kilometers (186 miles) from the ice cave.
