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Eight boys were taken out of the cave in northern Thailand where their football team and coach were trapped for over two weeks on the second day of a series of bold rescues that seized the world.
The boys and the coach, Ekkapol Chantawong, are supposed to stay in the cave.
Sources on the site told The Guardian that the fifth boy had emerged before 5:00 pm local time (11:00 am BST), after four were released Sunday.
A few minutes later, an ambulance with screaming sirens pbaded in front of the media center a few kilometers from the cave, following a helicopter that pbaded shortly thereafter.
The next two hours were followed by three other boys released one by one. Connected to the cave, treated in a field hospital on the site then rushed to a hospital about 50 miles to the nearest town Chiang Rai.
Around 7 pm, the official Facebook page of the Thai Navy Seals – who played a key role in the rescue – posted a message: "Two days, eight boosters, Hooyah," reads in reference to the report. Wild Boars football team to which the boys belong
Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha visited the site shortly thereafter, meeting the families of the boys
. Site divers said Monday at the Guardian that they were preparing to enter the cave where they spent more than eight hours Sunday guiding four of the 12 boys trapped in freedom.
Officials later confirmed that divers had entered Luang Nang No cave at approximately 11am local time (5am BST). "At 11am we sent the second team," said Narongsak Osatanakorn, the head of the joint command center that coordinates the operation.
He said the conditions that had triggered Sunday's operation: lowering of water levels in the cave, availability of lifeguards and the physical and mental health of stranded boys – were the same on Monday morning and the rescue had started five hours earlier than planned.
"The factors are as good as yesterday [and] The rescue team is the same team with a He said:" The perfect, the most ready. "
An official of the department Thailand's forests said that water levels continued to drop – the cave through thousands of pumps running indoors and had not been significantly affected by the intermittent rain of the last 48 hours. "The water level is not worrying," he said.
The boys who were rescued on Sunday were strong and safe, but had to undergo detailed medical examinations, said Monday the Minister of the Interior, Anupong Paojinda. "This morning they complained that they were hungry and they asked khao pad krapow [basil chicken with rice]," said Osatanakorn
Children released still have to meet their parents, who late Sunday night had yet to be told leque The doctors quoted by the Thai media said that the delay is to manage the mental health of parents whose children are still in the cave, and to ensure that boys can be tested for all the diseases that they have. They could have. picked up inside its wet and flooded interior.
Authorities said Monday that a medical team was evaluating the possibility of soon reuniting boys with their parents
"The medical team is studying the possibility of visiting them," Osatanakorn said. said. "It could be a visit through transparent glbad rooms.We are discussing with doctors at the hospital."
The released boys would not yet officially be named because of "doctor-patient confidentiality" , he added.
The news of the first four children was published Sunday. welcomed with joy in Thailand, but rescuers say that there were still significant risks with the majority of boys to undertake the journey of 3.2 km (2 miles) through the jagged, narrow and muddy cave.
Preparations are also underway for the mental health of boys once they are all released. Students and teachers from Maesaiprasitsart School, attended by many children, were instructed to avoid "conversations that hurt [the boys’] feelings," said Professor Thongyaud Kejorn.
The boys will not have to pbad a scheduled exam week, he added. "They will not have to follow the usual schedules."
Kittichok Kankeaw, a teammate of Nattawut Takamsai, one of the boys trapped, said he would try to help his friend catch up at school. "I can help him with his homework," he said.
Additional report by Jacob Goldberg and Veena Thoopkrajae
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