Thailand – The twelve teenagers saved from the cave – Panorama

• After 17 days in a dark cave, the twelve players of a Thai junior football team and their coaches are all saved.
• The last four children were taken out by special divers in a high-risk operation on Tuesday. 19659002] They are now all transported to the hospital and must stay there a few days

The twelve players of a Thai football team and their coach have all been saved from the flooded cave. This was announced by the Thai Navy on Tuesday. The last five trapped were then highlighted during another dive operation lasting one hour

which brings a 17 – day drama to a happy ending. The rescue was considered extremely dangerous: the experts had hardly thought that the team of the football club "boars" from his sanctuary, four kilometers from the entrance, could be brought to the outside . Since June 23, the football team of twelve boys aged between eleven and sixteen and their 25-year-old caregiver sat in the Tham Luang cave in the north of the country.

After nine days, the team was found. Since Sunday, accompanied by two special divers, the boys, some of whom could not even swim and had no diving experience, individually from the partially flooded cave. According to Guardian four rescuers, including a doctor, who spent the last days with boys under the ground, are still there.

In total, more than a thousand badistants were involved in the rescue. The core team included 18 specialized divers, mostly from countries such as Australia and the United Kingdom. In some places, the road was so narrow that divers had to unbuckle their bottles of breath. In addition, you could hardly see in the water. In anticipation of the mission, an experienced Thai professional diver drowned on Friday.

In the morning, the final preparations for the third and final day of the rescue operation had begun. Ambulances, soldiers and many helpers were seen in front of the cave. The action was also a fight against time. Heavy rains resumed Tuesday in the border region with Myanmar. Southeast Asia is currently the monsoon season. It was feared that the rain would increase the level in the cave.

The rescued crew was transported to the hospital. Of the eight teenagers saved Sunday and Monday, all were "safe and sound," said the provincial governor Tuesday morning. They are now treated in a hospital in the provincial capital Chiang Rai, about 50 kilometers from the cave. All eight were in good physical and mental condition, said representatives of Thai health authorities. Two boys received antibiotics for pneumonia, but they were "in a normal state".

"None of the eight boys have fever today," said Jesada Chokedamrongsuk of the Ministry of Health. All were X-rayed and blood tests were performed. They eat, walk and talk. Some would have asked for chocolate. The first survivors were also allowed to see their parents. However, always separated by a glbad wall to avoid a risk of infection. According to Jesada Chokedamrongsuk, the boys should stay in the hospital for a week for the test results.