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The rescue teams located this Monday to life the twelve children and their football teacher who were lost on June 23 in a cave in a natural park in northern Thailand.
Chiang Rai governor, Narongsak Osottanakorn, said the twelve miners, aged 11 to 16, members of a football team, and their coach, 26, were located close to a island inside the cave. "Our first mission has been completed," Narongsak told reporters, according to local daily Bangkok Post.
Authorities released a photograph showing three children and the coach smiling and shirtless while they light a flashlight inside the cave. The research efforts kept the country in abeyance for more than a week during which relatives did not separate from the cave and many Thais expressed their support through social networks.
several days of intense research in the ten-kilometer long cave that is partially flooded with the help of the Thai army and experts from the United States, Japan, China and Australia, among others.
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Since the alarm was triggered, some 1,300 soldiers participated in the search and rescue tasks in the cave of the Tham Luang-Khun Nam Nang Nature Park, in the northern province of Chiang Rai.
The main obstacle is the narrow pbadages invaded the cave, the fourth longest in Thailand with about 10 kilometers long and frequent level changes.
The teams used about 20 extraction pumps to reduce the water level in the most waterlogged parts, tasks that were hampered by the thunderstorm that plagued the region and mechanical problems.
According to the official version, the missing were admitted on June 23 into galleries after a drive when a sudden storm began to flood the cave and prevented its exit.
Given the difficulty of underground access, the authorities also followed the dense jungle of the mountain in search of alternative entrances to the cave. In one of the attempts, the members managed to descend about 40 meters deep, but found no trace or trace of the group despite the deployment with drones with thermal cameras and tracking dogs.
gaps found by the mountain "emergency packages" with food and objects for survival, as well as a map and letters from parents who asked to "return (through the current ) the map with the place marked "where the group is.
Thai Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-ocha moved to the region last Friday to encourage the families of those affected and express support for the relief team members.
They are athletes, they are strong, "said the president, referring to the disappeared.
The authorities keep relatives in a protected area to prevent the harbadment of dozens of media. They inform and retransmit, some live, agents.
Groups of Buddhist monks also held religious ceremonies at the entrance to the cave, and elsewhere throughout the country, where prayers were raised with the hope that the 13 people were rescued.
Rangers who activated the emergency mission encountered bicycles, shoes and other belongings of the missing at the entrance to the cave.
this first exploration, in which they went 3 kilometers into the den and watching the sudden rise of waters, the officers decided to back off and warn the rescue teams.
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