As Thai research enters seventh day, divers cling to the hope of finding lost boys



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  As Thai research enters seventh day, divers cling to the hope of finding lost boys

By Panu Wongchaum

CHIANG RAI, Thailand (Reuters) – N & # 39, having found no sign of 12 boys and their trainer During a week of research in a flooded cave complex in northern Thailand, rescuers hoped Saturday that the group could have found shelter on a knoll. rocky in one of the rooms

. their way through the murky waters filling the pbadages of the 10-kilometer underground labyrinth of Tham Luang cave, as the rescue effort became more and more desperate.

International rescue teams, including 30 US military, joined the search for the junior football team, which disappeared last Saturday, but rescuers were hampered by heavy rain.

The divers were still far from the place of potential safety, called "Pattaya Beach" "The distance we still have to go is probably two to three kilometers," Narongsak Osottanakorn, governor of the province of Chiang Rai

. the surface, after drilling a tree 50 meters long from the side of the mountain. Survival boxes, filled with food, water and torches, were dropped into the well on Friday, but on Saturday they were wide enough to allow rescuers to descend into the cave. still been unable to reach the underground chamber that could be the best hope of survival for the boys.

Aside from the bicycles and football boots left near the entrance to the cave, and some hand prints on the walls, the researchers have not found The rescuers believe that the boys have a chance to survive and could have access to fresh water inside the cave, and medical teams. practiced exercises to heal the survivors, and transported them by plane from a makeshift heliport

Family members watched, with prayers led by a Buddhist monk, near the entrance to the cave

Children will come out safe and sound, "Kampon Paree, 39, an uncle of three of the missing boys, told Reuters

(additional report by Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Panarat Thepgumpanat, edited by Simon Cameron-Moore)

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