An American student and two Japanese students who went missing inside of a cave overnight were found alive, Arkansas State University and emergency officials said Thursday. Arkansas State said Sherwood was leading the spelunking trip. Crews had been searching for the students in Blowing Cave near Cushman, 110 miles north of Little Rock, with help from cave-mapping experts, since early Thursday morning. The university said in a statement that rescue teams had found Casey Sherwood, a 25-year-old senior from Jonesboro; 19-year-old Daiki Itoh, of Hiratsuka, Kanagawa; and 18-year-old Daisuke Takagi, of Kawagoe, Hyogo. University spokesman Bill Smith said the Japanese students had taken English as a second language courses during the summer term and had enrolled as freshmen for the fall semester.

Source: Fox News August 11, 2016 23:26 UTC