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The rescuers discovered the twelve young footballers lost and their coaches in the depths of a cave in Thailand. But perhaps the most difficult part of the action is still ahead of them
Rescue teams attempt to pump water from the cave where the youth are missing. (Photo: Sakchai Lalit / AP)
(dpa / afp) The nightmare is not over yet: even after their discovery, young footballers included in a cave in Thailand for more than a year. a week must continue to wait for help. "We have to be 100 per cent sure that they can go out safely," Chiang Rai governor Narongsak Osotthanakorn said Tuesday morning. There was no time limit until the twelve teenagers aged 11 to 16 and their coach were out of the cave.
In any case, the teenagers come out relatively well, he continued. "None of the boys are in danger of dying.Most have minor health problems." A doctor had been sent to the boys to examine him. They received drugs and energy drinks. In addition, they received food for four months and a diving training, as the Thai army announced on Tuesday.
The Thai Army has released a photo of the found youths. They are waiting to be rescued at Tham Luang Cave in Chiang Rai Province. (Photo: EPA via the Royal Thai Army)
Thai authorities said Monday night (local time) that the teenagers and their coach, missing for more than a week, had been well discovered. The plan was to pump the water from the cave and then get it. For days, a flood in the corridors had prevented the rescuers from moving forward. After Monday's rain, the water level had even increased recently.
A video of emergency services showed children inside the cave at night with the help of flashlights – exhausted but delighted. Divers had penetrated the cave for more than three kilometers
Flood Disability
Previously, research had failed. For days, flooding in the corridors of Nam Nang Tham Luang-Khun Cave prevented rescue workers from moving forward. After the rains on Monday, the water level had even increased recently. The advance of the rescue divers in the interior of the cave has been delayed.
Finds of fingerprints of hands and feet had fueled the hope that the group could have saved themselves in the lower house.
The twelve boys aged 11 to 16 and their football coach entered the cave of Chiang Rai Province on June 23 after a training session. Authorities suspect that the group was hit by a flood and that it was saved deeper and deeper into the cave in front of the rising waters. The cave of Tham Luang near the border with Burma and Laos is about ten kilometers long and very winding.
"The water is the enemy"
At the weekend, rescue teams had reported small successes at first. They thus managed to advance in the cave about ten kilometers long and to advance in a bend, where the path of the cave divides in two directions
The young people and their trainer could survive up to 30 days without food, they were with them. Governor Narongsak Osotthanakorn said shortly before the announcement of success. The high water level is problematic. In some parts of the cave, the water is at the level of the eyes of an adult. "The water is the enemy," he said.
Thai rescue teams were supported by international experts during the operation. Australia sent Sunday six policemen who have experience diving in caves. Relief teams from Burma and Laos, up to 32 members of the US armed forces, three British divers and one British cave expert as well as five Chinese experts are helping out.
Parents have not lost hope
Parents of the week and friends of football players. Tilek Jana, 14, hopes to save her friend Prajak. "I want to play football again with him, I miss him," he told AFP
. Director Kanet Pongsuwan said that he was praying for the return of six students from his school: "We send them our help Have the strength to wait for help."
Twelve young people in the Thai cave still missing
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