India, May 31 -- Several survivors were rescued from a semi-submerged Laos cave after being trapped by flash floods while searching for gold. The rescue happened about a week after the victims were trapped underground. Those rescued are now in the process of guiding and helping the authorities rescue the last two remaining men believed to be trapped even deeper inside.

Foreign cave divers told news agency AFP Sunday (May 31) that they were trying to gain more information about the narrow, flooded passageways from the survivors in order to be able to devise a risky rescue strategy.

One of the survivors spoke about "waiting to die" in the depths of the cave.

The information uncovered so far was "considered substantial" by a Laotian rescu...