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The 12 boys and their football coach lone by the water nine days ago in a flooded cave in Thailand will receive food for four months and diving lessons, announced the Navy on Tuesday (3).
"Let's prepare to send more food for at least four months and teach the 13 (group members) to dive while we continue to draw water," said Commander Anand Surawan of the Thai navy.
Found alive the boys of a football team from Thailand
Found live the boys of a football team from Thailand
Boys, aged between 11 and 16, and their coach, 25, were located on the night of Monday (2) – safe and sound – inside the cave, whose exit was blocked by floods nine days ago
. Video recorded by the rescuers and posted on Facebook shows a group of skinny boys dressed in mud-drenched football jerseys, sheltering in a cave ledge surrounded by water.
The 12 boys and their trainer who are Prisoners in a network of caves in Thailand may need to learn to plon ger or have to wait months before the floods retreat, according to the country's military, involved in the rescue operation.
Photo taken by the Thai Navy showing sailors in the forest park cave (Photo: Thai Navy / AFP)
The group was found by divers. They were refugees in an elevated area in the cave complex, which was not flooded. But it is not possible to remove them from the spot because the accesses are full of water.
At this time, the purpose of rescue operations is to bring, in addition to food, medical supplies into the caves.
The cave complex, located in the province of Chiang Rai in northern Thailand, is generally flooded during the rainy season from September to October.
In the event that the 13 boys are to be removed from the cave before the end of the rainy season, they may need to learn basic diving techniques to cross the dangerous underground corridors filled with water. muddy water.
Already the attempt to pump water out of the caves, allowing the pbadage of the group, has not been successful so far.
Boys and technicians lost in a cave in Thailand, in the image file (Photo: Reproduction G1 / Thai PBS)
The children and the young football coach disappeared after a training session June 23rd. They entered Tham Luang Cave, Mae Sai District, near the border with Myanmar, to shelter from the weather. The coach, Ekkapol Janthawong, and the miners – aged 11 to 16 – knew the place well, said the Thai officials.
Bicycles, shoes and other property of the missing were found at the entrance to the cave by a group of officers from the Tham Luang-Khun Nam Nang Natural Park in the province from Chiang Rai.
Rescue teams searched for the group backed by military, police, divers and international badysts. The searches were hampered by rains and floods, which blocked the main entrance of the cave about 10 km long. The "flooded" galleries would have prevented the prisoners from leaving.
The teams searched for alternative inputs and used 20 pumps to extract water from the flooded areas. During the search, the police launched survival kits with water, food and medicine through a duct dug into the mountainside, not knowing if there would be anyone there. one to receive them.
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