A Thai technician emerges from the mouth of Tham Luang cave, at the Khun Nam Nang Non Forest Park in Chiang Rai province on Jul 2, 2018, as the rescue operation continues for a missing children’s football team and their coach. (Photo: AFP/Lilian Suwarumpha) These details emerged on Tuesday (Jul 3) as rescuers thrashed out plans to extract the boys and their 25-year-old coach. The group were located by divers late on Monday night, nine days after they first went missing. A stalactite is an icicle-shaped formation found hanging from the ceiling of caves. It is produced by the precipitation of minerals from water dripping through the cave ceiling. Seven members of a Thai navy SEALS unit, including a medic and a counsellor, are staying with the group after their discovery on an elevated rock late by divers who had struggled for hours through narrow passages and murky waters. News of the survival of the “Wild Boar” team sparked jubilation in a nation gripped by the harrowing drama, with news websites, social media and the prime minister celebrating the event and hailing the rescuers as heroes. “Thank you all Thais, thank you all foreigners, everybody is a hero and everybody helped each other,” Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha told reporters. PLAN A, PLAN B Aged between 11 and 16, the boys and their coach went missing on Jun 23, after they set out to explore the caves in a forest park following a training session. Much-needed food and medical supplies -… [Read full story]
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