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Rescuers pulled an American researcher out of a Turkish cave more than a week after he became seriously ill 3,000 feet below its entrance, Turkish officials said.

The Speleological Federation of Turkey says rescuers have pulled an American researcher out of a Turkish cave more than a week after he became seriously ill 1,000 meters (more than 3,000 feet) below its entrance.

An international team of rescuers on Tuesday pulled to safety a US explorer who spent nine days trapped deep in the narrow tunnels of a Turkish cave with internal bleeding.

Mark Dickey had been trapped underground in a cave in Turkey since Aug. 31, when he fell ill more than 3,400 feet below the surface.

More than 150 people were involved in efforts to save caver Mark Dickey

Rescuers pulled an American researcher out of a Turkish cave early Tuesday more than a week after he became seriously ill 1,000 metres below its entrance, the Speleological Federation of Turkiye said.

An American researcher was pulled out of a deep Turkish cave more than a week after he became seriously ill more than 3,000 feet below its entrance. Teams from across Europe had rushed to Morca cave in southern Turkey’s Taurus Mountains to aid Mark Dickey, a 40-year-old experienced caver who became seriously ill on Sept. 2 with stomach bleeding. He was on an expedition to map the cave, which is the country’s third deepest.

Rescuers pulled an American researcher out of a Turkish cave on Tuesday more than a week after he became se...

ISTANBUL: An international team of rescuers on Tuesday pulled to safety a US explorer Mark Dickey who spent nine days trapped deep in the narrow tunnels of a Turkish cave with internal...

Mark Dickey is brought out after getting trapped in the Morca Cave for more than a week when he fell ill.