Rescue workers are seen at Phra Sai Ngam cave during an operation to save a Thai monk trapped after the entrance was flooded at the weekend, according to local media, in Noen Maprang, Thailand April 6, 2021, in this still image taken from video obtained from social media. Video taken April 6, 2021. Mandatory credit THAILAND RESCUE DIVER/via REUTERS
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai rescue workers said on Wednesday they had freed a Buddhist monk trapped inside a flooded cave in Thailand's Phitsanulok province, after he went inside days ago to meditate.
The monk, identified by a local rescue unit as 46-year-old Phra Ajarn Manas, was on a pilgrimage from another province and had gone into the Phra Sai Ngam cave in Phitsanulok on Saturday.
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