"The collapse risks are high because you're constantly touching the roof, and it's hand-dug. There's no support anywhere," said Mikko Paasi, a diver who helped rescue a youth soccer team from a cave in Thailand.

Seven Laotian villagers entered a cave five days ago searching for gold and were trapped inside after heavy rain triggered flash flooding.

The villagers were searching for gold in the cave when flash flooding blocked their way out. The rescue effort includes Thai experts who aided in the dramatic recovery of a youth…

Seven have been stuck in flooded cave in central Laos for five days after heavy rain caused landslides

Cave rescue experts who took part in the dramatic rescue of 12 young soccer players from a flooded cave in Thailand in 2018 have joined the effort to save the stranded group.

A dangerous operation to rescue seven villagers trapped in a flooded cave for a week continues to unfold in a mountainous region of Laos, where experts are trying to beat bad…

Rescue crews are racing to save seven people trapped inside a flooded cave in Xaysomboun province for six days

Cave divers are squeezing through narrow, flooded corridors.

Locals entered the cave in search of gold and were trapped when heavy rains flooded it; 'confident' they are still alive because there is still air inside the cave; Divers from…

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"The collapse risks are high because you're constantly touching the roof, and it's hand-dug. There's no support anywhere," said Mikko Paasi, a diver who helped rescue a youth…

VIENTIANE: Rescuers were “racing against time” on Wednesday to extract seven people trapped in a flooded cave for a week in Laos, a specialist diver involved in the operation…

Even before the men went into the Laos cave to fossick for gold, the rain has started. Their families told this masthead that they had been warned not to go, “but they didn’t…

For now they remain stuck in an underground cavern as rescuers continue to search for the two remaining people.

For now they remain stuck in an underground cavern as rescuers continue to search for the two remaining people.

Thai divers broke through to an area where they found five of the trapped villagers perched on a muddy ledge, but two others remain missing.

Five of the seven men have been found alive after a week trapped in the cave. But their ordeal is not over yet.

Five of the seven divers have been found alive so far, but none have been rescued yet.

Rescuers say extraction efforts complicated by low oxygen supplies, dark and narrow spaces, plus more rain

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…

A diver describes the "emotional moment" when he found a group of men alive after they were trapped for more than a week in a Laos cave, while a South Australian renowned for his…