The show cave was evacuated.
A 14-year-old adolescent was killed by a rock fall on Sunday afternoon when approaching the Eisriesenwelt in the Tennengebirge near Werfen in Pongau. Another youth was injured, according to the Salzburg police. The fatally injured boy is a 14-year-old Iraqi, the second victim, a 19-year-old, comes from Pongau. According to the police, both teenagers were accompanied by their parents.
The boy was first flown to the hospital by helicopter. The show cave was evacuated. The boy was traveling with his parents from the mountain station of the cable car to the cave entrance. In the upper area shortly after the covered, broad gallery gallery at around 1600 meters above sea level, the accident may have occurred.
The stone hit the boy on the chest shortly before the cave entrance, said the manager of the cable car, Michael Rieder. On the section, the path would be built with an avalanche gallery. The roughly 30 centimeter stone should have broken out of the rock 300 meters above the path and fell over the structure.
Rain as the cause
“The reason for this was the heavy rainfall on Saturday,” said state geologist GeraldValentin, who examined the accident site. Because the rock lay on a chasm filled with earth. The rain made the soil slippery, plus water pressure, which released the block on Sunday morning. The exact one
The course of the accident is still being determined by the Alpine Police.
At the time of the accident, there were around 200 visitors in the ice cave. The giant ice world was evacuated. Fire brigade and mountain rescue brought the visitors to the cable car in small groups.
The Eisriesenwelt in the Tennengebirge has a length of 42
Kilometers as the largest ice cave in the world. Visit at peak times
up to 2,500 people a day the show cave, which is about one
Leads into it.
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