An official from Turkey’s disaster management agency says that rescue teams have began the arduous process of extricating an American researcher who became seriously ill while he was 3,000 feet below the entrance of a cave in Turkey.
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Rescue teams began the arduous process Saturday of extricating an American researcher who became seriously ill while he was 1,000 meters below the entrance of a cave in Turkey, an official from Turkey’s disaster management agency said. “This afternoon, the operation to move him from his camp at 1040 meters to the camp at 700 meters began,” the official from the Disaster and Emergency Management Directorate told The Associated Press.
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