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  • May 27

    Five Gold Miners Found Alive After Week Trapped in Flooded Laos Cave; Search for Two Others Continues

    Rescuers located five emaciated but smiling men huddled on a rock deep inside a flooded Laos cave on Wednesday, a week after they were trapped by a landslide while searching for gold. Two others remain missing as a multinational team battles rising water and collapsed passages.

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