Remaining boys in Thai cave await rescue
BANGKOK – Cave divers are poised to restart the high-risk operation to extract the remaining eight boys and their football coach from a vast flooded cave system. Four boys were brought safely out of the cave on Sunday. But the mission was paused overnight for air tanks to be replaced.
The boys became trapped in the cave on June 23 after heavy rains caused flooding, but were found alive last week by divers.
Rescuers decided to go ahead with the hazardous operation to free them because of fears that waters would rise again.
Activity at the dive site early on Monday suggests that the operation may have resumed or be about to resume. But there has been no confirmation.
At least seven ambulances have driven towards the cave entrance. (