Amateur speleologists who were trapped in an abandoned quarry in the Moscow Region following a cave-in, have cleared a passageway to the surface and are now out of danger, emergency services said Saturday.
"The report of a collapse at a quarry near the village of Starostyanovo [near the town of Domodedovo, about 30 km to the south of Moscow] came at about 3 p.m. Moscow time [midday GMT]," a police source said earlier today.
It said up to 100 speleologists may have been trapped after a section of quarry collapsed, blocking the only exit.
But an emergency services official said later they had managed to unblock the passageway before rescue workers arrived at the scene.
"About 20 of them have already come to the surface. There are no casualties," he said.
