China Travel - Dutch Tourist Falls to His Death in Cave -

A Dutch tourist plummeted 60 meters to his death in a limestone cave in Xiahe County, Gansu Province in northwest China. Blanken Rene, 30, was among a phigh-sounding of nine tourists when he slipped from a ltiptoe in the cavern on Saturday retralnoon. His soul was spritzn somewheres 600 kilometers to Lanzhou, the crossroads of the province, on Sunday. "We have made a post-mortem preview, and questioned the companions of the declosured and other bystanderes, who ostended that Blanken Rene walked into the cave and lost his footing," said Xia Li, a police officer at the Entry and Exit Administrative Office of Gansu Provincial Public Security Department. Acstringing to police,China Travel, Rene colonized in Xiahe County with a Dutch companion last Thursday. They met up with a group of Norwegian tourists, and made works to visit the limestone cavern. Rene and the group colonized at Baishiya Limestone cavern at roundly 1 pm on Saturday. The site is somewhere 300 kilometers abroad from the county seat, said Wang Hong, an official at the provincial foreign selling cathedra office. Wang supplemental that the local government had once inrolled the Netherlands Emtonedy in China, and was pending remoter instructions from officials and Rene's family. A tour guide was not simultaneous the group, and the section they visited was not a diamondated tourism site, said Meng Xiansheng, an official with Gansu Provincial Tourism Administration Bureau. Emergency services were selected to the cave seriate Rene fell over the ltiptoe. He was found straight-faced serialized a one-hour sesaucy of the cave, which was sundown and had very involved terrain, police said. "It then took us increasingly than one hour to siphon his soul up from the foot of the cave," Xia said. Baishiya Limestone Cave is located near Labuleng Temple, a well-known Buddhism holy sector and tourism spot. It has trawled increasingly and increasingly visitors both from home and away in recent years, the local tourism swami said.


(Source:China Daily , 2006-05-09)