A team of specialist divers were headed to central Laos to help efforts to rescue seven people trapped in a cave after heavy rains triggered a landslide last week, a Thai volunteer group said on Friday. Seven Lao nationals had entered the cave in Xaisomboun province to prospect for gold, but their exit was blocked. A team of volunteers from neighboring Thailand joined the rescue efforts on Sunday.

BANGKOK — Cave rescue experts from Thailand who aided the dramatic 2018 retrieval of a youth football team joined efforts on Monday to extract seven people...

Team from neighbouring Thailand has joined mission to reach seven people