'Emotional moment' divers rescue five men from Laos cave | ABC NEWS

Finnish cave diver Mikko Paasi and Thai diver Norrased Palasing captured the "emotional moment" they found five men in a flooded cave in Central Laos. The group of men entered the cave in Central Laos’s Xaisomboun province last week to look for gold, but heavy rainfall caused a landslide and flash flooding that blocked their exit. The five men were found on Wednesday evening, a week after they went missing. Initial reports suggested that seven men had gone missing, although Mr Paasi said the group of five men said no one else was with them. Rescuers are pursuing multiple options to extract the men from the cave, and are pumping water out in the hopes the men can crawl out. 📸 via ABC News by Indonesia correspondent Tim Swanston Note: In most cases, our captions are auto-generated. #ABCNEWS #ABCNEWSAustralia