An international operation to rescue a group of villagers from a cave has found five alive but organizers warned the real work had only just begun.

Seven villagers entered the cave in central Laos five days ago looking for gold when heavy rain caused flash flooding, trapping them inside.

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…

Cave divers are squeezing through narrow, flooded corridors.

Five of the seven villagers trapped for a week in a flooded cave in Laos have been found alive, rescuers said on Wednesday.

Five of the seven villagers trapped for a week in a flooded cave in Laos have been found alive, rescuers said on Wednesday.

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…

The cave is located in a rugged, remote area in Xaisomboun province’s Longcheng district, about 120 kilometres north of the capital, Vientiane.

Five of seven villagers trapped for a week in a flooded Laos cave are found alive as rescuers battle dangerous conditions to reach the remaining two.

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.

An international operation to rescue a group of villagers from a cave has found five alive but organizers warned the real work had only just begun.

The moment that rescuers discovered five of the seven villagers trapped in a flooded Laos cave for a week has been captured on video. Footage shared on social media by Thai rescue…

Seven Lao nationals entered the cave in Xaisomboun province last week before a landslide blocked their exit.

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

Rescuers face a daunting task freeing five trapped villagers located so far while search continues for another two

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…

Five villagers trapped inside a flooded cave in Laos for more than a week have been found alive, while two are still missing.