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BANGKOK (CNN) – A search is underway to rescue 12 teenage football players and their coach who would be trapped in a cave in northern Thailand.
Investigators believe that the group, which has been missing since Saturday, crawled into Tham Luang Nang Cave through a narrow channel 15 meters long.
The rising waters then blocked the path, which is about as wide as one person, leaving the group stuck in the network of caves, told CNN Kamolchai Kotcha, a head of the parks authority. Thailand.
"We have been working for almost 24 hours, but the constraints are many, the caves are very dark and the level of oxygen is very low in some areas, and the scattered rains have made our task more difficult," Kotcha said. .
Park officials, local police and 17 members of the Royal Thai Navy's SEAL team were deployed to participate in search and rescue efforts. The divers entered the cave chamber on Monday morning to search for the missing group.
The 13 people, all men from Chiang Rai, have been missing for 13 hours. Local time Saturday, when a park agent spotted something abnormal – bicycles parked lazily at the entrance to the cave, although it is forbidden.
The caves, which authorities estimate to be up to 3 kilometers long, are located in a place well known to local explorers and tourists in Chiang Rai Province, in Mae Sai District.
Northern Thailand is famous for its distant and untouched caves, which attract visitors from around the world.
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