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LONDON – Icelandic rescuers worked by hand Monday to cut through the remnants of a collapsed ice cave as they searched for two tourists missing for more than 24 hours since a glacier in the southeastern part of the island caved in, killing one person and severely injuring another.
Police said a group of 25 tourists from several countries were exploring an ice cave at Breidamerkurjokull when it collapsed shortly before 3 p.m. Sunday. Four people were struck by falling ice, with one dying at the scene and another flown to a hospital in Reykjavik, the capital, by helicopter. Authorities haven’t released the names or nationalities of the victims.
“This is a terrible event that you don’t want anyone to go through,” Garðar Hrafn Sigurjónsson, the association’s vice-chairman, told local news site Visir. “We regret this terrible accident on the Breiðamerkurjökull, both me personally and the association.”
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