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

An international cave rescue team were in a race against time and the weather in Laos to find and bring seven people trapped in a flooded cave to safety.

The team involved in the 2018 Thai cave rescue is part of the Laotian efforts.

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

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

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…

The search to rescue two Laos villagers who are stuck in a flooded cave continues, according to emergency divers.

Rescuers rushed on Thursday to pump water from a flooded cave in Laos, where seven Laotians have been trapped for more than a week.

An Australian specialised diver will join the rescue effort to free Laos villagers trapped in a cave.

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…

VIENTIANE, May 29 — 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...

The seven men had been trapped in the cavern in a remote mountainous area of central Xaysomboun province since May 20, when flash floods stranded them.

The seven men have been trapped in a cavern in a remote mountainous area for more than a week, after flash floods stranded them as they searched for gold.

Seven people who entered the cave last week were trapped inside by flash flooding that blocked their way. Five of them found some days ago have reached the service after rescuers…

A specialist diving crew from around the world have arrived in Laos to help retrieve the other trapped men.

A rescue team freed on Friday one of seven men trapped inside a semi-submerged cave in Laos for more than a week, the group working at the site said.

The five are among seven Lao nationals who had entered the cave to prospect for gold, but were trapped for more than a week when rising water blocked their exit.

Two others remain missing after group became trapped by rising water last week