The twelve boys who were rescued after being trapped 18 days in a cave lamented the death of the Thai diver who died during the relief operation, announced Sunday by the Thai Ministry of Health. The wild boar football team has left the cave of Tham Luang, in the north of the country, flooded by the monsoon rains, after a three-day evacuation Thailand: in a video, the boys rescued and the coach speak in public for the first time "src =" https://images.clarin.com/collections/static/lazy_square.svg "data-big =" https://images.clarin.com/2018 /07/13/SJY30YDX7_290x290__1.jpg "data-small =" https://images.clarin.com/2018/07/13/SJY30YDX7_110x110__1.jpg” observer=”” data-observer-function=”loadLazyImg”/>
On July 6, Saman Kunan, a diver who had been in the Thai Navy and who worked as a volunteer in the rescue, died trying to establish a line of oxygen supply with the cavity where children were stranded.
Boys rescued from the cave pose with a picture of the volunteer who died during his search. (Photo: Thailand Ministry of Health / AP)
Although the rescue ended four days earlier, members of the football team, ages 11 to 16 did not know the news. the death of the rescuer. yesterday Saturday, July 14.
"They all cried and expressed their condolences in writing messages on a drawing of Lieutenant Commander Saman and they gave him a minute of silence ", said in a statement Jedsada Chokdamrongsuk, permanent secretary of the Ministry of Health. Saman Kunan, triathlete and diver, had left the army in 2006 and was working at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok. When the children were locked up, he volunteered to participate in the rescue.
The youth and the trainer were lost and without food for nine days until they are found by rescue teams of more than a thousand people.
