For a week, the bodies of the two excavator drivers who died in the devastating rock fall in Steyr-Christkindl (Upper Austria) lay under the rock masses. A team of firefighters recovered the bodies on Tuesday morning.
During work on a cliff Wednesday morning, a 3,000 cubic meter boulder came loose, thundered down and broke in two. All help came too late for the 31 and 64-year-old excavator operators, they were buried. For a long time, a salvage operation was too risky for the rescue workers.
Also geologists in salvage operation
But on Tuesday morning, a team of firefighters went to the two dead men. There were also two geologists who observed the situation closely.
“As soon as there is the slightest trace of danger, the action is stopped,” Steyr city press spokesman Michael Chvatal said before the rescue operation in an interview with “Krone”. A little later, however, when it became known that the operation had been successful, the two dead Carinthians could be recovered.
Source: Krone
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