Eighth Boy Rescued By Divers From The Thai Cave
As reported by The Independent, the eighth boy was carried out on a stretcher shortly after the fifth football team member was rescued by the divers. Now, five boys remain trapped in the cave.
Thirteen foreign divers and five members of Thailand¡¯s elite Navy SEAL worked incessantly and their efforts didn¡¯t go in vain as news of the eighth boy being pulled out of the cave emerged.
As reported by The Independent, the eighth boy was also carried out on a stretcher shortly after the sixth and the seventh football team members were rescued by the divers. Four boys and their football coach remain trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand after rescue efforts brought four to the surface.
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During the rescue operation, one of the divers lost his life on Friday; a former Thai navy Seal, Saman Gunan was helping in putting the oxygen cylinders in place when he ran out of oxygen himself. The operation then highlighted the risk involved in bringing the children back home.
According to foreign media, the sixth and the seventh boys have been admitted to an onsite medical facility. Divers have previously described conditions in the cave network as some of the most extreme they have ever faced.
On June 23, a team of around thirteen members went missing during the heavy rainy season in Thailand. The soccer team along with their coach visited a popular tourist site, Tham Luang cave complex in a forest park near Thailand¡¯s northern border with Myanmar and got trapped in it due to rising floodwater.
Bursts of heavy monsoon rain soaked the Tham Luang Cave area in northern Chiang Rai province on Sunday and storms were expected in the coming weeks, increasing the risks in what has been called a ¡°war with water and time¡± to save the team.
The boys, aged between 11 and 16, went missing with their 25-year-old coach after soccer practice on June 23, setting out on an adventure to explore the cave complex near the border with Myanmar and celebrate a boy¡¯s birthday.
An Australian doctor who is part of the rescue mission checked the health of the boys on Saturday night and gave the all-clear for the operation to proceed. The boys were discovered by British divers Richard Stanton and John Volanthen last Monday.
