Five men searching for gold in a Laos cave were found alive after being trapped for over a week in flooded tunnels.
A multi-national team of cave divers, some of whom helped rescue the Thai soccer team in 2018, are now working to extract the men.
Rescuers face narrow passageways, toxic gas from bat droppings and the challenge of flooded tunnels.
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Hope has returned for the five trapped men deep inside a flooded Laos cave. For more than a week, they huddled together above the murky waters in the pitch black, more than 260 meters from the cave’s entrance, wondering if anyone would ever find them.
