The team had to employ drills, hammers, and small explosives to breach the final 100 meters where the cave system began to bottleneck, in order to allow a stretcher to pass through. Medics and ...

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Work to clear the narrowest section of the cave began Sunday evening but has progressed slowly, according to local media. As of Monday morning, rescuers had yet to pass the tightest bottleneck ...

Ottavia Piana, 32, was lifted out from deep inside the Bueno Fonteno cave in northern Italy ... They had to use micro-explosives to widen the bottlenecks enough to get her out.

A cave expert had to be rescued after getting ... and had to use small explosives to blast a path through a 100-metre bottleneck, which was too tight for a stretcher to pass through.

Rescuers needed four days to extract Ms Piana from the cave because the crevice she fell into was too tight for the stretcher. They had to use micro-explosives to widen the bottlenecks enough to ...

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