First of five trapped miners rescued from flooded Laos cave after week underground

Five miners were trapped in a flooded cave for over a week; one has been rescued while four remain underground awaiting extraction.

In the karst hills of Laos, five miners found themselves swallowed by the earth when floodwaters sealed their only way home. After more than a week of darkness, cold, and waiting, one man has returned to the surface — mud-covered and alive — proof that the passage, though barely survivable, can be survived. Four of his companions remain below, each facing the same harrowing journey through submerged corridors that the first has now shown can be completed. It is a story as old as mining itself: the earth takes, and human ingenuity and will negotiate for its return.

First of five trapped miners rescued from flooded Laos cave after week underground

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