On Monday afternoon, 5 people who were stuck in a cave in Slovenia 3 days earlier were rescued. They are three Slovenian adults from the same family and two guides, and they are all in good health. They had become stranded due to rising water levels due to heavy rains. Its decrease on Monday allowed them to be taken out aboard a small boat. About forty people in total took part in the rescue operations, including six divers.
The people were in the Krizna Jama cave, which is located in the province of Inner Karst, in the south-west of the country, and is 8 kilometers long in total: inside the temperature is 6 °C, and there are some lakes underground. The people were about two kilometers underground. They had already been reached by divers, who had brought food and warm clothes and set up a heated emergency shelter in which to wait for the water level to drop.