American cave explorer Mark Dickey has been rescued from a deep cave in Turkey that he’d been stuck in for roughly nine days after becoming ill, the Turkish Caving Federation announced, ending what the federation called "one of the largest cave rescues in the world.”
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Dickey was carried out of the cave in a stretcher by rescuers a little after midnight local time, the Turkish Caving Federation said.
His rescue comes over a week after Dickey told the European Cave Rescue Association that he had begun suffering from gastrointestinal bleeding and was unable to get himself to the surface.
That launched a weeklong rescue mission that brought together agencies from both within Turkey and internationally, including from Hungary and Bulgaria.
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