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The families of the survivors promised that the football players would enter the monacato once they would be saved to thank their return and in honor of the late volunteer Samar Kunan. This week most of them have started a retreat to fulfill their promises.
The twelve children and their trainer were lost nine days and without food until they found them four kilometers from the entrance and finally rescued in a three-day operation. EFE
Eleven children and their football coach rescued for over two weeks trapped in a cave in northern Thailand began today ceremonies to become ordained Buddhists. Early Tuesday, the group joined the monks of Phra That Doi Wao temple in the northern province of Chiang Rai, in a series of challenges and spiritual offerings, which will continue this afternoon with purification rituals, where he's shaving. the hair of the future monks
"They will hold a nine-day retreat," Chaing Rai governor Prachon Pratsakul told reporters. "Eleven of the twelve children will be novices and their coach will become a monk," he explained, referring to football coach Ekkapol Chantawong, who has already served as a novice and helped children stay calm in the cave. July 8th and 10th.
The proceedings will end Wednesday at another religious site in the region, where they will remain in order until August 3, the provincial government said in a statement. The surviving families promised that the children would go to monasticism once saved to thank them for their return and in honor of the late volunteer Samar Kunan.
The other rescued child, Adul Sam-on, belongs to an ethnic minority Christian from neighboring Burma, so he did not participate in the rites. Rescue operations for children aged 11 to 16 and their 26-year-old coach raised great expectations around the world and served as a national pride in the country.
The group entered Tham Luang Cave during an excursion on Saturday, June 23 after completing a football training when a sudden storm flooded the outlet of the cave. The thirteen were lost for nine days and without food until they found them four kilometers from the entrance, on July 2, and were finally saved between the eighth day, four nine, four and ten, the other five.
According to the victims' story, the coach, Ekapol Chanthawong, helped them to calm down and they survived by drinking the water that filtered through the walls of the cave. The search and rescue teams, who trained more than a thousand people, put them to sleep and carried them on stretchers and underwater in the flooded sections until the entrance to the cave. The Thai government has recommended that the group return to normal life and avoid becoming the center of the media.
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