Some 23 vacationers from numerous one-of-a-kind international locations had been withinside the cave while it collapsed.A guy has been killed and a lady become critically injured after an ice cave collapsed in Iceland.
Rescuers have been trying to unfastened vacationers believed to nevertheless be trapped withinside the cave however police referred to as off the hunt , announcing they now suppose no person is missing.
The guy and lady are believed to had been a pair and had been each from the US, police stated .
The cave is withinside the Breidamerkurjokull glacier, 2 hundred miles (320 km) east of capital Reykjavik.South Iceland police stated in a declaration on Monday that the hunt become released after it become believed 25 humans have been touring on Breidamerkurjokull while the cave collapsed.
However, after the elimination of all of the fallen ice, police stated it have become clean there have been a miscount of vacationers and handiest 23 humans had taken element withinside the trip.
The first rescue operation noticed round 2 hundred humans involved, police stated . It become suspended overnight " because of the risk of the scene", however rescuers endured to interrupt down large quantities the subsequent day, frequently with the aid of using hand.The guy who died become stated useless on the scene.
The lady who become critically injured become taken with the aid of using helicopter to hospital. Her situation is stated to be stable.Police thanked excursion operators withinside the vicinity who assisted the hunt and rescue operation with lodging and meals over the last 24 hours.
The pressure stated it might hold to research the occasions of the accident.