Italian woman rescued from Bergamo cave after 75 hours trapped underground

Ottavia Piana, 32, was trapped in an exploratory area of the Abisso Bueno Fonteno cave last Saturday afternoon.

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00:00An injured cave explorer in northern Italy was carried to safety on Wednesday, 75 hours

00:05after she fell while attempting to map an unexplored branch of the Buono Fontano cave.

00:11Italian alpine rescuers strapped the 32-year-old Ottavia Piana into a stretcher that reached

00:16the cave's mouth in the early morning hours.

00:19It was her second time in 17 months to be rescued from the cave near Lago d'Eseo, northeast

00:24of Bergamo.

00:25Piana suffered multiple fractures when she fell 5 meters.

00:29Only 160 technicians from 13 Italian regions assisted the rescue.