A Laos rescue organization said that the water level inside the cave had receded enough for the four miners to leave with divers.

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…

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…

Ongoing work follows successful evacuation of first survivor on Friday

A total of five people have now been rescued, while two remain missing.