Rescuers work to save man stuck in cave

Rescuers were working to rescue a man stuck deep inside a cave in the German Alps after he was injured by falling rocks, an effort that police said could take days as experts negotiate a tricky labyrinth of vertical shafts and bottlenecks.

A four-member rescue team yesterday reached the German cave researcher, 52, inside the Riesending cave system, near Berchtesgaden in Germany’s southeastern corner, police said.

The man, whose name was not released in keeping with German privacy rules, had suffered head and upper body injuries a day earlier. One of his two companions made a 12-hour climb back to the cave entrance to alert authorities, while the other stayed with him.