Rescuers in operation to save injured caver

ROME: Thirty Italian rescue workers were on Sunday attempting to extract an injured potholer trapped in a mountain cave on the border with Slovenia, officials said.

The 33-year- old caver from Trieste in northeastern Italy fell 20 metres on Saturday as he explored a gallery 200 metres below the summit of Mount Canin.

He is conscious but suffering from stomach pain.

A team of specialists were using small quantities of explosives to enlarge a route out of the cave and enable them to get a stretcher through.

A doctor and a nurse reached him late Saturday. — AFP