Five Italian nationals have died following a scuba diving accident in the Maldives, Italy’s foreign ministry said on Thursday.

The Maldives and Italy’s Foreign Ministry say rescuers have located the bodies of four Italian divers believed to be deep inside an underwater cave in a Maldive atoll.

Three highly-trained specialist cave divers found the bodies during a three-hour rescue dive on Monday morning, according to the Divers Alert Network ( DAN ), an international diving safety group invo...