Five of seven miners found alive after week trapped in flooded Laos cave

Seven people trapped in flooded cave for over a week; five found alive, two still missing; immediate risk to all survivors from oxygen depletion and cave conditions.

In the cave systems of Laos, seven miners descended into the earth and found themselves swallowed by rising water, joining a long human lineage of those who have faced the underground dark and waited for the world above to reach them. After more than a week, rescuers located five of the seven alive — a partial answer to an agonizing question, delivered by divers who had learned their craft in the flooded passages of Thailand years before. Two remain unaccounted for, and the oxygen that sustains the living grows thin, reminding us that rescue is never a single moment but a sustained act of will

Five of seven miners found alive after week trapped in flooded Laos cave

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