Rescue attempts began for boys in the cave

CHIANG RAI / STOCKHOLM. Now rescuers are launching the boys' work out of the cave in northern Thailand.

18 divers were sent to the cave to bring out the football team and their coaches.

On the outside, health professionals are ready to take care of children as they exit.

Now, hundreds of journalists who previously worked under tents in the cave moved into a schoolyard near the national park.

The rain that began to fall during the night has increased and the thousands of people involved in the relief campaign make it more difficult to leave.

Police, military and ambulance cars travel on the roads around the cave. Locals help with everything from food and mosquito distribution to journalists and rescuers – for interpretation and work on pumping water. In several directions around the area, he continues to dump water out of the pipes as rain increases and may enter the cavern.

The level of water in the cave decreases considerably

on distress. Of the 18 inland dives, thirteen foreign dive experts and five are from the Navy's special Navy Seals Navy.

Early in the evening local time, the first boy should come out of the cave, said the governor of Chiang Rai Province at a press conference

Not going to dive

Earlier it was said that divers would use what is called a "pair diving" where divers assist boys and help them with cubes d & # 39; air. Now, it seems that it is not necessary.

Cave diver Jonas Westerberg, who has been in contact with the rescue group in Thailand, tells TT that the kids will not have to dive.
– They will be led by the lifeguard, says the diver Jonas Westerberg
The boys will wear diving suits, a mask for the whole face and a helmet so as not to damage the walls of the caves.

The network of caves in recent days, which means that it may be possible to walk or wade in the water parts of the road. The water level in the cave fell 30 centimeters after pumping water.

To get out all the boys and their coaches should take several days.

– It depends on the weather and the level of the water. If something changes, we have to wait. But I estimate that the rescue operation will be completed in the coming days, according to Governor Narongsak Osatanakorn, according to The Guardian.

Several injured during the rescue operation

During the night, ten people were injured looking for possible entrances into the rock in the cave. The car they drove from a cliff and AFP caused several serious injuries to several people.

On Friday, one of the rescue dives died after the air in his tubes sank and four people were injured in an accident.

A large number of people, Thai rescuers and foreign experts, are in place in Chiang Rai Province in northern Thailand, where the football team and its trainer have entered a cave system two weeks ago.

In the first stage, it was stated that it was possible for children to remain stuck in the cave until the end of the monsoon, but the level of acid in the cave is alarming and now the effort has accelerated

8 July 2018 05:49