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Exploration turned into a diplomatic incident
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-03-26 13:35


A group of British cavers walk outside of a cave in Cuetzalan, Mexico, after being rescued on March 25, 2004. A group of specialized divers rescued the trapped divers as their misfortune has turned into a diplomatic incident, with Mexican President Fox demanding to know what the British cavers, four of whom are British army members, were doing.  [Reuters]

Some of the six British military cave divers, wearing black suits, who were trapped for more than one week in the cave of Alpazat, are seen after they were rescued in Cuetzala, Mexico, Friday, March 25, 2004.  [AP]

A British caver speaks on a radio March 25, 2004 at the entrance of a cave system near the town of Cuetzalan in which six of her colleagues were trapped by rising water levels over a week ago. [Reuters]

 
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