• 18 hours ago
Ottavia Piana, 32, was trapped in an exploratory area of the Abisso Bueno Fonteno cave last Saturday afternoon.
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00:00An injured cave explorer in northern Italy was carried to safety on Wednesday, 75 hours
00:05after she fell while attempting to map an unexplored branch of the Buono Fontano cave.
00:11Italian alpine rescuers strapped the 32-year-old Ottavia Piana into a stretcher that reached
00:16the cave's mouth in the early morning hours.
00:19It was her second time in 17 months to be rescued from the cave near Lago d'Eseo, northeast
00:24of Bergamo.
00:25Piana suffered multiple fractures when she fell 5 meters.
00:29Only 160 technicians from 13 Italian regions assisted the rescue.

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