TIL Desk/World/Thailand/ After more than two weeks trapped inside a cave complex in Thailand, all 12 boys and their football coach have finally been rescued. The last three members of the youth football team and their coach were pulled out of the cave on Tuesday. “All 12 ‘Wild Boars’ and coach have been extracted from the cave,” the Thai navy SEALs said in a Facebook post. “All are safe,” they added and signed off with “Hooyah”.
The last four Thai navy divers, including a doctor, who had been with the boys emerged safe from the cave later. A crack team of foreign divers and Thai Navy SEALS has been guiding the boys out through nearly 4 km (2.5 miles) of sometimes submerged, pitch-dark channels.
The boys, aged from 11 to 16, and their coach, ventured into the Tham Luang cave in mountainous northern Thailand on June 23 after football practice and got trapped when heavy rains caused flooding that forced them to take shelter on a muddy ledge. After they were found on July 2, officials cautioned it could take some time to get them out, but with heavy rain forecast to hit the region authorities decided to act.
