Tourists were found self-isolating from the coronavirus pandemic in an Indian cave after running out of money for hotel fees.
The group of four men and two women were surviving in a cave near Rishikesh, a town in Uttarakhand state, CNN reports. Officials found them and quarantined them at an ashram on Sunday, police say, after living in the cave for a month.
A spokesperson for the Uttarakhand police told CNN that the tourists — from France, Turkey, Ukraine, the U.S. and Nepal — ran out of money for their hotel, so they moved to a cave to ration their funds for food.
A suspension of air, rail and road transport had left them stranded since March 24. Before that, a state government order implemented on March 20 banned any tourists from