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Mae Sai (Thailand) – In the home of Pheeraphat, in northern Thailand, the birthday cake was not thrown: his family is waiting for his evacuation from the cave where he has been stuck for more than ten years days to celebrate even if the hours may be long before its release.
" The cake is in the fridge, I'm keeping it there to surprise him " on his return, says Phunphatsa Sompiengjai, the sister of the man whom his family calls by his nickname, " Night ", who turned 16 on June 23.
After days without news, Pheeraphat and his eleven teammates stranded with their football coach were finally found Monday night, several kilometers deep in the cave, beyond a now flooded area.
His mother, Supaluk, who was afraid of no longer hearing the sound of his son's voice, clings to the few words, precious, heard in a video shot in the cave and broadcast Wednesday by rescuers to families on a large screen near the cave.
" I saw him, he's the boy with the red and white T-Shirt, he says + Hello, I'm Night, I'm fine + ," said his mother, moved.
" It's really nice to know he's safe, but it'll be better when he gets out of the cave ," she adds.
The evacuation promises indeed to be delicate, with long pbadages of diving. And the rescuers continue to fight with the water level, which they try to bring down with a whole system of pumps.
– Goal –
Pheeraphat joined the football team of " Wild boars " about a year ago, as a goalkeeper, tells his family.
Three other boys from the team come from this same village where the whole community lives waiting for their return. The four boys were inseparable.
On Saturday, June 23, Pheeraphat went to football training, as usual, with his friends. He had to go home to celebrate his birthday with his family.
" We had prepared the birthday dinner and relatives had joined us ," says the teenager's sister, receiving AFP in their house in Ban Vienghom village, in the province from Mae Sai, on the border of Burma.
Worried about this unusual extended absence, the family waited for hours before calling their child's friends and relatives.
– Party in the cave? –
The fact that the young footballers would have gone to the Tham Luang cave after the training, for some unexplained reason, was quickly considered as a plausible hypothesis. Today, the family of Pheeraphat wonders if the football team had not the idea to go to the cave to celebrate the anniversary.
The relatives of Pheeraphat evoke a collection of treats organized that day by the children. They may have wanted to go and blow the candles in this cave that they knew well to have already made several outings.
The families' concerns were confirmed when the children's belongings, their bags and shoes, were found at the entrance of the cave.
The search then began in the evening, before being interrupted for the night. The torrential rains of the night then prevented any search on foot.
And from a local news item, the story has over the years taken national and international scale, with foreign specialists called in reinforcements and TV channels from all countries waiting in the cave area .
But for the family of Pheeraphat, the event is an intimate drama. " When he comes back, we will surprise him, and we also bought him presents ," says his great-aunt, Phakawan Wangyao.
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