Thai cave boys save six people … "An intensive treatment requirement"

Mongrakun Bumpem (pictured left), known as a cave boy, and a Thai Navy special forces marine soldier conducting rescue operations. [사진출처 더 네이션 홈페이지, AP=연합뉴스]

Six Thai boys out of thirteen who were trapped for 16 days in Tam Luong Cave, Chiang Rai Province, northern Thailand, were saved. However, one of the rescued boys would need intensive medical treatment because of poor health.

Six boys and a coach who are still in the cave are waiting for the help of a rescue team. Local rescuers said it would take about 10 hours of preparation to save them. A total of 90 divers are participating in the rescue operation, the official said. About 50 of them are foreigners and about 40 are Thai.

Boys on youth football teams trapped in Tam Luong Cave in Chiang Rai Province, northern Thailand, are gradually being saved. [사진 Thai Navy SEAL]

Local rescue authorities began rescue operations for the boys of the football team inside the cave from 10 am (local time) the day. At 17:40, the first lieutenant, Mongtaekun Piaoam (13 ㆍ Yeomyeongmok), fled the cave safely, and 10 minutes later, the second boy, whose identity was unknown, was saved. Two other people were later rescued from the cave, but one of them was found in poor condition. Since then, two more people have been saved.

After being examined in a medical camp near a cave, they were transferred to a hospital in Prakanuk, Chiang Rai, by a helicopter nearby. Those who had been trapped for about two weeks in Tam Luong Cave in Chiang Rai Mbadai District left the cave with the help of rescuers. However, the specific situation in the cave is not yet known. Ten multinational structure experts and members of the Thai Navy's crew entered the cave for a large-scale rescue.

A rescue team is waiting for survivors to be transported to the hospital near Tam Lung Cave in Chiang Rai Province, northern Thailand, on August 8 (local time). [AFP=연합뉴스]

Previously, Nakhon Rai Governor Naong Saksan stated that he expected the boys to be rescued around 9 pm, but the rescuers appeared to have rescued the rescuers earlier than before. they did not think so. "The rescue team at the entrance to the cave said that the space inside the cave is now low enough to shorten the estimated rescue time," said on his Twitter the foreign journalist Florian Vitisskiy, outside the cave of Tam Luong. .
Twelve athletes and a coach belonging to the "MuPa" (boar) football club of Chiang Rai entered the cave for the purpose of sightseeing after training in the afternoon of 23 last month, and suddenly, He was isolated in time. They were found five kilometers from the entrance to the cave on the tenth day of the disappearance by two British cave explorers who were searching the cave with crew members of the Thai Navy.

Twelve athletes belonging to the "MuPa" (Boar) football club of Chiang Rai. [사진 트위터]

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