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Food and medical aid reached the 12 boys and their football coach who were found weakened but safe at the bottom of a cave in northern Thailand nine days after their disappearance.

The Thai Army announced Tuesday that she would provide the team with four months of food and give them diving lessons while continuing to drain the cave complex Tham Luang, in Thailand's Chiang Rai Province, which was flooded by heavy monsoon rains.

The news that the boys, aged 11 to 16, and their 25-year-old coach had been found, aroused joy in Thailand.

A British team of divers was the first to reach them on Monday night around 22 hours. : 00 (15:00 GMT).

"How much do you have" Thirteen "Brilliant", a diver is heard in a video that shows the moment when the pale, thin boys were found perched on a ledge inside the complex of the cave.

"We are hungry … are we going out?" one of the boys meets the rescuers in the video.

There had been no contact with the team since they were trapped inside on June 23, after floods caused by heavy rains blocked the plant. # 39; entry.

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"I can not express what I feel, it's beautiful and I'm very proud – I do not m & Did not expect so far "Adisak Wongsukchan, the father of one of the boys, said after the discovery of the boys.

According to Chiang Rai reports, Al Jazeera's Scott Heidler said, "The families are very happy, but they are very worried now about how quickly these boys can go out."

"We do not really know how long"

Divers have been trying for several days to reach a section of the cave called "Pattaya Beach", making laborious advances in the dark and flooded cave and sometimes forced to retreat due to the rising waters.]

But when the rescuers arrived at the potential security point, they also found it flooded.The football team was finally found 400m farther into the cave.

High-calorie freezes and paracetamol are among the supplies that have since The team members were found in a stable condition while some of the boys had suffered injuries or injuries. minor injuries, said Tuesday the governor of Chiang Rai, Narongsak Osatanakorn 19659002] [1 9459009] READ: Rescue of a cave in Thailand: What is happening now for boys? [19659002] A SEAL team from the Thai Navy will now decide how the boys and their coach will be safe. Narongsak said that one of the methods to study is to train the group to swim with special breathing masks.

They would continue to drain the cave while exploring the side of the mountain for other entrances as well. The rain is expected to intensify from Wednesday, potentially complicating the rescue effort that could take weeks or even months to complete.

A Thai rescuer walks near the place where the water is pumped from. a cave flooded after 12 boys and their football coach were found alive. (Sakchai Lalit, AP)

A view of the boys and their football coach as they are saved in a cave, in Chiang Rai Thailand. (Thai Navy Seal by AP)

The water is pumped from a flooded cave after all 12 boys and their football coach were found alive. (Sakchai Lalit, AP)

An American cave rescue expert told the AP news agency that many challenges remained to the operation.

"Getting them on the spot can be difficult depending on the difficulty of the dives: trying to take non-divers to a cave is one of the most dangerous situations, even if the dives are relatively Easy, "Anmar Mirza, the coordinator of the US National Cave Rescue Commission told AP.

"If the dives are difficult, the supply will be difficult, but the risk of trying to make them disappear is also exponentially greater," he added.