Injured caver freed from Turkish cave after nine days

The 40-year-old American caver, who suffered a gastrointestinal hemorrhage on September 2 while more than a thousand meters deep in the Morca cave in southern Turkey, has been freed after a nine-day rescue operation. Turkish authorities announced this shortly after midnight local time on Monday. “Mark Dickey has been freed,” it said, “the rescue operation has been successfully completed.”

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