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An elite Finnish diver posted photographs showing the inside of the caves. It is believed the tragic divers died after a sandbank partially obscured their route back to the surface.

Five Italian divers who drowned in a tragic Maldives expedition may have been drawn into a cave and ran out of oxygen while trying to escape, a new theory suggests.

A Maldives cave diving instructor may have ‘intentionally swum away’ from a tourist group where six people have died as they entered a ‘pitch black cave’.

The bodies of four Italian divers who went missing during a scuba-diving accident in the Maldives have been located.

Rescuers have located the bodies of four Italian divers deep inside an underwater cave in an atoll in the Maldives, four days after they were reported missing.

Five tourists have died 160ft underwater during a diving trip in the Maldives – as the victims including a mum and daughter are pictured.

Police in the Maldives raided the offices of a local news outlet on Monday night, seizing computers and barring its top editors from leaving the country after the publication broadcast a video in which a woman alleged she had a sexual relationship with the nation’s president.

A British Airways stewardess has reportedly been ordered to return home by angry bosses after getting into a fight on a boozy trip to the Maldives - angering hotel staff and guests

Oskar Kappland and Dan Goz from Gothenburg in Sweden travelled to the Maldives for a no-expenses spared holiday on the island paradise that ended up being very wet and cloudy

Six in ten Brits have a special trip in mind that they hope to take - and spend an average of four years planning their 'dream holiday', research has found

Lujo Hotel A’La Carte in Bodrum, Turkey has many of the beautiful features that makes the Maldives in the Indian Ocean such a big draw to holidaymakers around the world

Sam and Chris Hoar, who travel the world together, find a beach on the Isle of Harris in Scotland that their compared to the golden sands and blue waters of the Maldives in the Indian Ocean

Two Brit men, aged 65 and 46, have drowned off the coast of the Maldives just two days apart after diving in hammerhead shark-infested waters

Rob Adcock, from Leek in Staffordshire, has used Skyscanner to work out how to get from London Gatwick to the Maldives in the Indian Ocean for less than four nights in a Travelodge hotel room

Two-thirds of Brits want to see as much of the world as they possibly can - from a safari in Africa, to driving Route 66 in the USA

Dion Jones falls for beautiful Maldives hook, line and sinker after spending a beautiful holiday in Atmosphere Kanifushi, an award-winning luxury holiday resort

The Maldives may be known for their white sand beaches and blue waters but there's a UK hotspot that offers similar scenes - and it's also been a hit with the British royal family