Iceland police say 1 American vacationer dead, 1 injured in ice cave collapse

The police had earlier stated that two individuals remained lacking after the collapse, however of their later assertion they stated the tour operator had supplied inaccurate info and that each one of these concerned within the incident had been accounted for. 

The police power for the Sudurland area stated it was an American couple hit by the collapsing ice, and that the person was killed and the lady was transported by helicopter to a regional hospital the place she was in a secure situation. The police stated her accidents weren’t life-threatening.

Rescue providers launched a search operation for the 2 individuals initially believed to be lacking Sunday and that work continued into Monday, however the police stated after clearing away the fallen ice they’d confirmed no person else was on the website and the operation was referred to as off.

The glacier the place the accident occurred is close to the glacial lagoon Jokulsarlon, one among Iceland’s extra common vacationer locations.

Iceland is a geologically restive nation, residence to a number of lively volcanoes that trigger common disruption with eruptions of poisonous gasoline, ash and lava.

On Friday, Icelandic authorities stated a second fissure had fashioned on the southwestern Reykjanes peninsula after lava began spewing forth for the sixth time within the area since December. After weeks of warnings, the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) stated a brand new eruption had began the earlier night following a sequence of earthquakes.

Video confirmed orange lava bursting out of a protracted fissure, which the IMO estimated to be 2.4 miles.