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Mae Sai, Thailand, July 2, 2018 (AFP) – The 12 children members of a football team and their coach trapped in a cave flooded in Thailand for more than nine days were "found healthy and saved" this Monday, after days of research.
There had been no contact with the boys, between 11 and 16 years old, nor their coach, of 25, since 39 they disappeared on Saturday, June 23.
Relief efforts were hampered by heavy rains that flooded the Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand and blocked access to rooms where the group was supposed to be found.
The provincial governor of Chiang Rai, Narongsak Osottanakorn on Monday evening announced the good news to a nation that has been closely following all efforts to save them.
at 13 hours safe and sound, "he told reporters, who spontaneously applauded and applauded.
However, the evacuation will not take place immediately, he said, "We will bring them food. to feed, since they have not eaten for a long time. We will also take a doctor who knows how to dive. "
Divers took advantage of a brief lapse of time Monday to penetrate deeper into the cave, where water levels are reduced slowly but continuously every hour thanks to continuous pumping.
They were expecting to find the team on a high ledge known as the Pattaya Beach.
But the group had withdrawn 300 to 400 meters away while the sill was submerged, Narongsak added.
The news was spread at high speed Monday through social networks and parents of children, some of whom had slept near the cave for days, expressed their joy.
I am so happy … I want to see him "Thinnakorn Boonpiem, father of one of the missing, told AFP
that young players, aged 11 to 16 , and their 25-year-old coach, ventured into the night of June 23, after his training, in Tham Luang Cave, located in a dense rainforest area on the border with Burma and Lagos. 19659014] A happy family member shows the latest pictures of the missing children taken by the Divers Rescue in Tham Luang Cave when all members of the children's football team and their coach were found alive in the Cave of Khun Nam Nang Non Forest Park in Mae Sai District of Chiang Rai Province, July 2, 2018.
But they were blocked by the heavy rains of the monsoon and they were not able to contact them.
His drama was watched live by Thai television and people did not talk about it for days.
On Monday, a ceremony was held at the children's school. "That he is coming back to play football with us, we miss him," implored 14-year-old Tilek Jana, one of 200 children gathered and whose friend Prajak is among the missing.
I pray every night for you 13 lives are saved, "added Jakkrit Muenghong, one of Prajak's teachers.
Renowned Thai singer, Kong Huayrai, wrote a song in tribute to children and to their coach: "We do not know who they are, how they are, but where are they? Are they cold and hungry? "Says the ballad broadcast on television, which points out that a country awaits them.
On Monday, members of the Lisu tribe gathered near the cave to sacrifice chickens and pigs, an offering to them. river and jungle spirits to beseech them to allow safe return of children.
Dozens of divers, including international troops, have been mobilized for more than a week to try to The Australian, British, Japanese and Chinese teams of specialists, as well as some thirty American soldiers, traveled to this remote mountainous region to support Thai rescue teams.
