ALL 12 boys and their football coach have been rescued from a Thai cave after an 18-day ordeal, the Thai Navy Seals said in a Facebook post yesterday, on the third day of a complex mission to bring them out.
In a day of high drama, the remaining five boys emerged in groups as evening approached, guided out by international divers and the Seals, who have played an integral role throughout an unprecedented rescue mission.
The “Wild Boars” – named after their team, entered the Tham Luang cave complex on June 23 after football practice. They became trapped on a ledge deep inside when heavy rains caused flooding. – July 11, 2018.
Police and military personnel using umbrellas to cover a stretcher near a helicopter and an ambulance at a military airport in Chiang Rai on Monday, as rescue operations continue for those still trapped inside the cave in Khun Nam Nang Non Forest Park in the Mae Sai district. – AFP pic, July 11, 2018.This handout video grab taken from footage released by the Thai navy taken on July 3 shows Adul Sam-on (right), a member of a Thai youth football team trapped with 11 other children and their coach, gesturing as he sits inside the Tham Luang cave in Khun Nam Nang Non Forest Park in Mae Sai district, Chiang Rai province. Born in Myanmar, raised by Christian teachers in Thailand, and trapped in a flooded cave for 13 days, Adul Sam-on is a stateless boy being praised for his unflinching politeness, English skills and composure throughout the underground ordeal. Images of the wide-eyed teen were beamed around the world when he was discovered alive with his young football team and their coach nine days after they went missing in the waterlogged Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand. – AFP pic, July 11, 2108.A woman lifting her child near the hospital, seen at left, as ambulance transporting members of the children’s football team arrives in the northern Thai city of Chiang Rai after being rescued in Tham Luang cave. All 12 boys and their coach who became trapped in a flooded Thai cave more than a fortnight ago have been rescued. – AFP pic, July 11, 2018.Indian schoolchildren holding placards and pictures during a prayer event for the safe rescue of young football players and their coach stuck in a cave in Thailand, in Ahmedabad. All 12 boys and their coach who became trapped in a flooded Thai cave more than a fortnight ago have been rescued. – AFP pic, July 11, 2018.Thai rescue workers taking a break as rescue operations continue for the 12 boys and their football team coach trapped in Tham Luang cave at Khun Nam Nang Non Forest Park in the Mae Sai district of Chiang Rai province on July 7. More than 100 chimneys are being drilled into the mountainside in a frantic bid to reach a Thai youth football team trapped in a cave complex below. – AFP pic, July 11, 2018.Microphones taped to a tree before a press conference at the command centre as rescue operations continue for the 12 boys and their football team coach trapped in Tham Luang cave at Khun Nam Nang Non Forest Park in the Mae Sai district of Chiang Rai province. – AFP pic, July 11, 2018.This handout video grab taken from footage released by the Thai navy late July 2 shows missing children inside the Tham Luang cave of Khun Nam Nang Non Forest Park in the Mae Sai district of Chiang Rai province. – AFP pic, July 11, 2018.An undated handout photo taken recently and released on July 7 showing Thai navy soldiers in the flooded Tham Luang cave during rescue operations for the 12 boys and their football team coach trapped in the cave at Khun Nam Nang Non Forest Park in the Mae Sai district of Chiang Rai province. –AFP pic, July 11, 2018.Family members and relatives praying at the entrance of Tham Luang cave while rescue personnel are conducting operations to find the missing members of the children’s football team along with their coach at the cave in Khun Nam Nang Non Forest Park in Chiang Rai province. – AFP pic, July 11, 2018.Thai soldiers relaying electric cables deep into the Tham Luang cave at the Khun Nam Nang Non Forest Park in Chiang Rai during a rescue operation for a missing children’s football team and their coach. – AFP pic, July 11, 2018. A Thai nutritionist preparing food at Chiangrai Prachanukroh Hospital, where eight boys of a football team are staying after they were rescued from Tham Luang cave in Chiang Rai province, Thailand, yesterday. – EPA pic, July 11, 2018.A handout photo made showing Thai navy personnel preparing oxygen tanks for the ongoing rescue operations for the youth football team and their assistant coach at Tham Luang cave in Khun Nam Nang Non Forest Park, Chiang Rai province, Thailand. – EPA pic, July 11, 2018.Thai pupils praying for the child football team and their assistant coach trapped in a cave at Maesaiprasitsart school in Mae Sai district, Chiang Rai province, Thailand. – EPA pic, July 11, 2018.
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