Coronavirus: Madison Man Among Tourists Hiding In Cave In India

MADISON, CT — Madison native Michael Falcone has been identified as one of the six tourists rescued from a cave in India.

They are reported to have been hiding from the coronavirus pandemic for more than a month, an NBC News report says.

Patch has made requests for comment and more information to Falcone via social media.

According to NBC News, Falcone and five other tourists had been in a hotel in a city in northern India but moved to a cave near the Ganges River on March 24 and had been there since. They were found last Wednesday.

Falcone was tagged in a Facebook post that shows he and others in Kumaon in late November of 2019.

The other tourists, NBC News reported, were from Ukraine, Turkey, France and Nepal. Their sojourn into a cave coincided, the report says, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ordered national lockdown to stop the community spread of the virus.

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