{"id":33836,"date":"2026-05-27T22:03:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/33836\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T22:03:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:03:58","slug":"rescuers-race-to-free-five-people-trapped-in-flooded-cave-in-laos-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/33836\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescuers race to free five people trapped in flooded cave in Laos | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Rescuers race to free five people trapped in flooded cave in Laos | BBC News\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RR6JwJco3Mw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nRescuers race to free five people trapped in flooded cave in Laos | BBC News<br \/>\n<br \/>\nRescuers in Laos are hoping to save five people  found alive inside a flooded cave after they were trapped for a week following heavy rain and landslides.<\/p>\n<p>Two other people  who were with them are missing..The seven were part of a group of villagers from the central province of Xaysomboun who had gone into the cave in search of gold deposits and wildlife, but were trapped  as the cave&#8217;s entrance was blocked.<\/p>\n<p>Footage shared by the rescuers reveals cave divers crawling through narrow, muddy passageways that were almost completely flooded.<\/p>\n<p>The cave system, which extends deep underground, is extremely narrow, with some chambers measuring only about 50cm wide<\/p>\n<p>Specialist rescue diver Mikko Paasi from Finland said that rescuers needed to &#8220;navigate hundreds of metres of constant restrictions, flood waters, collapse hazards and high risk of contaminated air quality&#8221; inside the cave.<\/p>\n<p>Jane Hill presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Jonathan Head.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel here: https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews<\/p>\n<p>For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rescuers race to free five people trapped in flooded cave in Laos | BBC News Rescuers in Laos&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[34804,5951,34802,34800,176,234,236,34114,220,193,14967,34798,2422,2423,22424,34807,1693,15292,4793,4885,7276,34801,34806,31,4350,30976,34805,7278,3374,844,218,34803,34797,28169,34808,4676,32298,34799,1202,219,29071,23605,2086,4014,235],"class_list":["post-33836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bbc-news","tag-against","tag-air","tag-alive","tag-bangkok","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-cave","tag-danger","tag-dead","tag-emergency","tag-flooded","tag-flooding","tag-floods","tag-gold","tag-hazards","tag-injured","tag-landslides","tag-laos","tag-mine","tag-missing","tag-mud","tag-narrow","tag-news","tag-operation","tag-oxygen","tag-pothole","tag-race","tag-rain","tag-rescue","tag-risk","tag-saved","tag-seven","tag-survive","tag-survivors","tag-system","tag-team","tag-thai","tag-thailand","tag-threat","tag-time","tag-trapped","tag-underground","tag-water","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116648820354618175","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}