BANGKOK, May 29 (Bernama-dpa) -- The first of five people trapped in a flooded cave in Laos has been rescued, Thailand's MTK emergency service reported late on Friday, according to German news agency dpa.
The four remaining gold miners are to be brought out one by one by rescuers.
The group has been trapped for 10 days, several hundred metres from the entrance after heavy rainfall flooded the gold mine and triggered a landslide.
Colleagues who managed to escape raised the alarm, but the mission to rescue them has proved extremely risky because of tight tunnels, high water levels and an acute risk of collapse.
Hopes are meanwhile fading of finding two other men who are still missing.
--BERNAMA-dpa
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