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Rescuers free one of seven trapped in Laos cave
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A rescue team on Friday night freed one of seven men trapped inside a semi-submerged cave in central Laos for more than a week, the group working at the site said.
Key facts
- A rescue team on Friday night freed one of seven men trapped inside a semi-submerged cave in central Laos for more than a week, the group working at the site said.
- The first victim has been successfully rescued out of the cave,”
- Laos’s meteorology office forecast thunderstorms on Friday afternoon and evening, with rainfall expected across 60% of Xaysomboun province.
- The emergency echoes the 2018 case of the Wild Boars youth football team, which spent 18 days trapped in a cave in northern before a daring international rescue saved their lives — an operation followed by millions around the world.
Summary
“The first victim has been successfully rescued out of the cave,” the Thai group Metta Tham Kalasin Rescue said in a Facebook post accompanied by a picture of three men guiding another bedraggled and muddy man over unsteady ground.
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 as they searched for gold.