display
Dietfurt (AP) - A 57-year-old cave explorer died while diving in a cave near Dietfurt in Bavaria.
The rescue workers recovered the victim late on Saturday evening, as a spokeswoman for the Upper Palatinate police headquarters said.
According to her, four experienced cave explorers were in the system of the Mühlbachquellhöhle in the Franconian Alb.
About 700 meters from the entrance "there was an accident where it is not yet exactly clear what the exact cause is".
A member of the group then returned to the surface and alerted the rescue workers at around 4 p.m.
Numerous emergency services from the fire brigade, water rescue service, mountain rescue service, rescue service and the police arrived.
Ultimately, however, they could only rescue the victim dead.
display
Details of what happened initially remained unclear.
"One is currently from an accident," said the police spokeswoman.
The investigations of the Regensburg criminal investigation department should give more details.
"You can now make a lot of speculations, but you have to wait and see what the facts are."
The accident occurred in the Mühlbach district of Dietfurt in the Mühlbachquellhöhle system.
It is considered to be one of the longest cave systems in Germany and is partly filled with water.
In 2014, a rescue operation in the giant thing shaft cave near Berchtesgaden brought the previously little known scene of cave explorers into the public eye.
At Pentecost, one of the mostly voluntary workers was hit in the head by a rock fall in Germany's deepest cave.
He suffered a traumatic brain injury and was brought back to light by more than 700 helpers from a depth of 1,000 meters in an eleven-day, almost one million euro rescue operation.
© dpa-infocom, dpa: 210206-99-332546 / 3