Thirteen people, including 12 soccer teenagers and a coach, were rescued in Thailand on July 10, 17 days after being trapped in the cave.
Chinanews.com, July 11-on the evening of the 10th local time, 12 members of Thailand's youth football team and a coach were rescued from the cave after being trapped in the cave on the evening of 17 July. The global rescue effort, which mobilized aid workers from more than 10 countries and tens of thousands of military, police and volunteers, was finally a success.
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On the afternoon of June 23, 25-year-old coach led 12 11-to 16-year-old team members to explore the underground cave of the "Sleeping Beauty Cave", the Thai teenager football team, called "Wild Pig," is a school football team in Mesai County, Qinglai Province, on the afternoon of June 23. Trapped in a high ground about 4 kilometers from the mouth of the cave as a result of the heavy rain, 13 people were lost at one point, and their lives and deaths were uncertain.
Due to the rugged and narrow nature of the cave and the depth of the water, it takes about six hours for a single rescue trip. Thailand and experts from all over the world have tried their best to rescue 13 people as soon as possible. While they were trapped, they tried to rescue them by pumping water 24 hours and looking for other entrances.
The commander of the rescue operation, Nongsa, said that the last eight days of the rescue, mainly to see the fall in the water level in the tunnel, will take 3-4 days according to the proposed batch rescue mode, and there will be a continuous rainstorm based on the weather forecast of 10 days, So, on the 8th day,90 rescuers were mobilized to get into the cave to start the rescue.
It took 11 hours to successfully rescue four people in the operation on the 8th, and on the 9th to save another four in nine hours. On the evening of the 10th, rescue workers finally rescued the remaining four teenagers and their coach out of the hole. By the time 13 people left the cave safely, four Navy SEALs and military doctors who had entered the cave last week to take care of the trapped had also successfully left late at night, and Nalonza then announced the completion of the rescue.
On the evening of the 10th, journalist held in Nalonza, said all rescued teenagers and coaches have been taken to the hospital, will soon be able to meet their families. "We have succeeded in doing what others think is impossible, and it has become a possible task," he said.
Nalonza said the operation would be thanks to many foreign rescue experts and military police and the media, especially foreign diving experts, without whom they would not have completed such an unprecedented difficult task.
After the incident, he said, he hoped that the Thai people would all be United. In the past 17 days, they have dedicated themselves to their posts and have not given up any hope.