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Laos cave rescue: Four more pulled out 10 days after seven gold prospectors trapped by flash flooding; two still missing
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Laos cave rescue: Four more pulled out 10 days after seven gold prospectors trapped by flash flooding; two still missing

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Rescue workers in Laos on Saturday safely evacuated four villagers who had been trapped in a flooded cave for 10 days, a day after the first of the group was successfully pulled out, with two of the seven men who entered the cave still missing, news agency Associated Press reported. The five men, who had been part of an artisanal gold-prospecting party that ventured into a cave in Laos’s central Xaisomboun province, around 120 kilometres north of the capital Vientiane, on May 20, were trapped when flash flooding blocked their way out. One member of the original party of eight had escaped in time and alerted authorities to the seven left behind. Photos and videos posted by the Lao Rescue Volunteer For People organisation and Thai rescue groups showed the four men being brought out of the cave with flashlights strapped to their heads and their clothes caked in mud, several of them crying with relief as they emerged. They were placed on stretchers, wrapped in foil blankets and given oxygen masks.…

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