The Tatra Volunteer Search and Rescue (TOPR) workers reached the place where the bodies of two missing spelunkers were laying, inside the Wielka Śnieżna cave - TOPR duty officer Marcin Józefowicz informed on Friday evening.
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"The bodies have been found laying next to each other in an area marked by the TOPR as the most likely," Józefowicz wrote in a statement.
Further details regarding the operation in the Wielka Śnieżna cave should be revealed on Saturday afternoon, TOPR informed.
The mission inside the Wielka Śnieżna cave began on August 17. Two members of one of Wrocław's spelunker clubs got trapped in the cave after the water had flooded the corridor. Four of their collegues managed to get out the cave and notified TOPR rescuers.
The body of the first caver was discovered on August 22.
The rescue mission was largely based on blowing up rocks with explosives in order to widen the narrow corridors of the cave. TOPR workers were aided by their Slovak colleagues from the Horska Zachranna Sluzba.
The chief of TOPR, Jan Krzysztof, has said that search missions in such extreme conditions are extraordinarily difficult and complicated.
Autor: gf / Źródło: TVN24 News in English, PAP
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