Bewilderment still reigns after the massive crushed stone in the Tyrolean Kaiser Mountains, in which a German commando (30) was buried on Thursday. According to the initial findings, tens of cubic meters of rock erupted. Rescuing the victim in the high-alpine terrain poses a huge challenge for emergency services – and is likely to take several days.
“Alpine police officers are at the scene of the accident and the army is also coming,” police spokesman Stefan Eder told Krone early Friday afternoon. Due to the inaccessible location of the accident, rescuing the buried person becomes a tour de force and must now be precisely planned by the emergency services. Even an experienced mountain rescuer says: “I’ve been there for a long time, but I’ve never seen anything like it!”
The recovery will take longer, probably “several days,” Eder said. According to state geologists, about 50 cubic meters of rock erupted, the police spokesman explained the size of the crushed stone.
‘Boulders partly as big as VW bus’
A major search operation had to be called off Thursday for security reasons and the state geology department was called in. The 30-year-old victim, who according to the Public Prosecution Service was a soldier in the Special Forces Command (KSK) of the German armed forces and who was training to become an army mountain guide, was caught through the rock masses after abseiling. practice and bury underneath. “Some boulders were the size of a VW bus,” said Christoph Silberberger, chief of the Alpine Police in the Kufstein district.
Search dogs were able to sniff the man under the rocks after a while on Thursday, but the victim could not be seen. Dog handler Richard Pali of the St. Johann Mountain Rescue Service says, “You can’t survive something like that.”
Source: Krone
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