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Four men rescued from flooded Laos cave, two still missing

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Rescue workers have reported that four more men, who had been trapped for ten days in a flooded cave in Laos, have been rescued. The first of these men emerged from the cave on Friday.

  1. TH
    Kengkard Bongkawong
    Metta Tham Rescue
    1. If we can completely pump out the water, we may be able to bring everyone out today.
    2. The route they used to enter has chambers along the way where people can stop and rest. The victims know that when water rises, they have to retreat to those safer points.
    3. That area has a lot of water. The water goes there because it's even deeper than this place.
    4. To dive in a cave, there are issues with the temperature, narrow areas, control of movement, and managing the panic of the survivor, which will be difficult, but we have to do it.
    5. You're essentially diving in coffee. You're not going to be seeing anything through it.
  2. TH
    Norrased Palasing
    Metta Tham Rescue
    1. All the way, breathe through your mouth only. Do not ever breathe with your nose, do you understand?
    2. One person has made it out safely, and we will not stop until the remaining four make it home too.
  3. TH
    Manat Artmongkron
    Saithan Saphanboon Foundation
    1. The first one is out. Safe and sound!!!
  4. AU
    Josh Richards
    1. Diving in the narrow passage that has no space to make a U-turn, this is really dangerous so we need to evaluate the safety measures, principles, routes and expertise in the cave area.
  5. LA
    Mee Singfamalai
    1. We're villagers. We go into the mountains to make a living. We heard there was gold, so we went in looking for it. Then the cave flooded and we couldn't get back out.
    2. When we stepped outside and saw people cheering for us, it felt like I had been given a new life. It was overwhelming. I suddenly had hope.
    3. I always believed I would survive. I had to make it back out to see my sisters and my mother.
    4. It helped a lot. We didn't have any blankets.
    5. We slept hugging each other. Four or five of us.
    6. Sometimes we had to dive, sometimes we had to crawl. We crawled slowly. The passage was just about the size of a person.
    7. We had been there for a long time and the water had dried up. It was too cold inside, so we decided to crawl our way out.
    8. I was afraid because we were there alone.

sources

  1. 1.CNN
  2. 2.Hindustan Times
  3. 3.The New York Times
  4. 4.France 24
  5. 5.Taipei Times
  6. 6.PBS News
  7. 7.The Guardian
  8. 8.The Irish Times
  9. 9.Los Angeles Times
  10. 10.South China Morning Post
  11. 11.Arab News
  12. 12.Sweden Herald

perspectives

  1. 1.Gold Mining
  2. 2.Caving
  3. 3.Speleology

countries

  1. 1.Lao People's Democratic RepublicLA
  2. 2.ThailandTH
  3. 3.AustraliaAU
  4. 4.FinlandFI
  5. 5.FranceFR
  6. 6.IndonesiaID
  7. 7.JapanJP
  8. 8.MalaysiaMY

organizations

  1. 1.Rescue Volunteer for People
  2. 2.Metta Tham Rescue
  3. 3.Stimson Center
  4. 4.Instagram
  5. 5.Long Tieng Hospital
  6. 6.Saithan Saphanboon Foundation

persons

  1. 1.Kengkard BongkawongTH
  2. 2.Mikko PaasiFI
  3. 3.Chakkrit Taengtang
  4. 4.Norrased PalasingTH
  5. 5.Josh RichardsAU
  6. 6.Bounkham Luanglath
  7. 7.Manat ArtmongkronTH
  8. 8.Mee SingfamalaiLA
  9. 9.Thao Oun

technicals

  1. 1.Mekong
Four men rescued from flooded Laos cave, two still missing