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Letters from twelve children stranded for 14 days in a flooded cave in Thailand were transmitted via divers on Saturday, while relief workers evoked a window of three to four days to evacuate them before the arrival of new rains. 19659002] "Do not worry, Dad and Mom, it's been two weeks since I left, but I'm going back to help you at the shop," writes Ekkarat, signing his nickname, Bew. His parents run a small grocery store
"I'm fine, but it's a little cold here, do not worry about me, do not forget to make me a birthday party," says another child, Duangphet , signing his nickname, Dom.
"If I go out, please, take me to eat moo krata," a Thai dish made from grilled pork and vegetables, says a third, Piphat, signing Nick's name:
The letters written by the children to their families, who are anxiously awaiting the exit of the cave, are the first evidence of public life transmitted since Tuesday.
The young football coach who took the group of children on this expedition that went wrong, wrote a letter of apology to the parents: "Thanks for all the moral support, I apologize to all the parents," says Ekkapol Chantawong, 25. 19659002] The opinions in Thailand are divided between those who reproach him for taking the e children under his care in a cave known to be flooded by the monsoon, and others who are grateful to him for giving the children his ration of food before they were located.
After the publication of two videos , the first filmed during the discovery of the group by British divers Monday night, the second Tuesday, no video has been published since the group found perched on a ledge, several kilometers in the depths of the cave.
They were trapped on June 23 by the rise of waters in this cave in the depths of northern Thailand, on the border with Burma and Laos.
Relief Saturday wondered about the opportunity to trigger a perilous evacuation, monsoon rains expected soon could ruin the efforts continued for several days to drain water from the cave.
"Now and for the next three or four days, the conditions for an evacuation are perfect with regard to the water, the time and the health of the boys," Narongsak Osottanakorn, the head of the cell, told reporters. crisis. "We have to decide what we can do."
Rescuers inserted a pipe several kilometers long to get oxygen into the pocket where the group took refuge.
Oxygen level is stabilized in the cave, but the level of "carbon dioxide is another factor" to take into account, he said.
"When you're in a confined space, if the oxygen goes down to 12 %, the body starts to slow down and people can lose consciousness, "Narongsak Osottanakorn said.
Soon expected rains could reduce much of the muddy ledge on which the group took refuge.
" Water could climb to the place where the children are sitting and reduce this area to less than 10 m2, "Narongsak Osottanakorn said, citing expert and diving estimates.
Saturday night, a big monsoon shower is fallen for half an hour, recalling the urgency to evacuate the children.
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Early on Saturday, he said that the children were not yet ready to take the dangerous route out of the cave. But the water level in the cave was reduced by drainage operations.
Several kilometers long in rough casings, the route out of the cave includes difficult underwater pbadages.
Sign of the company, a former diver of the Thai navy died Friday during a supply operation of the children.
Now, a big part of the children, aged from 11 to 16 years, do not know how to swim, and none have done any diving.
For the moment, it takes eleven hours for a seasoned diver to make the round trip to the children: six hours to go, five hours back thanks to the current.
Inside, the children are "in good health", Mr. Osottanakorn badured.
To prepare an evacuation from above, alternative to a plunge extraction, more than a hundred holes were drilled vertically in the mountain: some shallow, but one of them 400 m long eter.
The rescue operation is still in the news, with more than 1,100 journalists registered on site, their cameras lined up in the mud of this rainforest.
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