Two individuals are trapped after ice collapsed throughout a tour of a collapse an Iceland glacier, police stated.
First responders obtained 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 individuals had been on a tour with a information on the time.
4 individuals 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 line with native media.
Native information retailers reported that 200 individuals 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.
Nevertheless, Icelandic information outlet Visir quoted Sveinn Kristján Rúnarsson, a senior police officer, as saying individuals had been really standing in a ravine between the cave mouths when an ice wall collapsed.
Breidamerkurjökull is what known as a glacial tongue that extends from giant glacier Vatnajökull and into lagoon Jökulsárlón. The glacial tongue is famed for its ice caves, with teams providing excursions.