The searches had resumed on Monday after being suspended following the death of a local military diver during a perilous mission to try to reach them.

Italy’s Foreign Ministry said the five divers “apparently died while attempting to explore caves at a depth of 50 meters (164 feet)” in the Vaavu Atoll on Thursday.

The search for the bodies of four of the five Italians who died while scuba-diving in the Maldives on Thursday failed to locate the corpses on Friday and will resume on Saturday,…