Rescuers halt search for two last men lost in Laos cave
Rescuers said unstable cave conditions and rising water left only a slim chance of finding the two men alive, officials said.
- Rescuers called off the search Saturday for two men trapped in a semi-submerged cave in Laos for more than two weeks, as the site became unstable and survival hopes faded.
- Seven villagers were trapped by flash floods in Xaysomboun Province on May 20 while hunting bats and searching for gold in old mining areas, state media said.
- The five survivors were discovered huddled around 300 metres from the cave's entrance, while the two missing men had entered the site separately, complicating the search.
- Thai lead rescuer Kengkad Bongkawong said on Saturday that "no one is allowed inside the cave" because "it is too risky for anyone to enter", but water pumping operations would persist outside.
- Malaysian cave diver Lee Kian Lie told AFP the mission is at an "end" as risks of continuing outweighed slim chances of rescue, though the cave entrance had become dangerously unstable.
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The rescue teams suspended, this Saturday (6), the searches for the last two men trapped in a cave flooded in Laos for more than two weeks. Lee Kian Lie, a Malaysian diver specializing in caves participating in the rescue, told AFP that the mission had arrived at the "end", because the risks of continuing exceeded the few possibilities to rescue them. More than R $ 700,000 in giant cockroaches? Illegal creation with more than 100,000 exotic inse…
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AlKhaleej Today‘We were so close’: Malaysian diver says rescuers forced to abandon Laos cave search for last two men as entrance unstable
VIENTIANE, June 6 — Rescuers called off their search Saturday for two men trapped in a semi-submerged cave in Laos for more than two weeks, as the site became unstable and hopes of survival faded.Seven villagers became trapped in the cave in central Xaysomboun province on May 20 when flash floods blocked their exit as they hunted bats for food and searched for gold in old mining areas, state media said.Rescue teams found five of the men alive a …
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