Race against time won: All 12 boys and coach rescued safely from Thai cave

The mission was a battle against time and heavy rainfall prediction for the week, which was most likely to flood tunnels once again, making the entire operation difficult to carry out.

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New Delhi: The third and final phase of Thai cave rescue operation concluded successfully on Tuesday as all the thirteen people trapped inside the flooded cave were brought out successfully by the team of rescuers. 12 members of a youth soccer team and their coach, were trapped in the flooded cave for over two weeks. The mission was a battle against time and heavy rainfall prediction for the week, which was most likely to flood tunnels once again, making the entire operation difficult to carry out. A crack team of foreign divers and Thai Navy SEALS rescued four boys on Sunday and another four on Monday, and the rest on Tuesday. Here are the latest updates:

• All 12 boys and their coach have been rescued successfully from the Tham Luang cave of Thailand, where they were trapped in for 17 days.

BREAKING: All 12 boys and football coach rescued from Thai cave: Thai navy SEALs (AFP)

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• An eleventh boy has been brought out safely from the Thai cave. Now the operation is underway for one more boy and the coach of the team.

Eleventh person brought out of Thai cave: navy, official sources (AFP)

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• A tenth boy has been brought out of the Thai caves. Two boys and their soccer coach still stuck inside amid rescue operations.

Flash - A tenth boy has been brought out of the Thai caves. Two boys and their soccer coach still stuck inside amid rescue operations.

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• Rescuers are racing to extract the rest of the squad and their coach as heavy rains pick back up in the Northern Province, threatening to complicate the last phase of the mission by re-flooding the cave.

  Thai soldiers walk into to the Tham Luang cave area as the operations continue for those still trapped inside the cave in Khun Nam Nang Non Forest Park in the Mae Sai district of Chiang Rai province on July 10, 2018.
Rescuers raced to save four young footballers and their coach who remain trapped in a flooded Thai cave on July 10, as heavy rains threatened an already perilous escape mission that has seen eight of the boys extracted in "good health". / AFP PHOTO / YE AUNG THU

• The rescue team is all prepared to resume operations to rescue the last five members of the Wild Boars soccer team, who are trapped in a vast cave in northern Thailand.

 

• The first eight boys rescued from Thai cave are in good mental and physical health and are asking for chocolates, officials said today, although two were on antibiotics after being tested for pneumonia.

 

• Four of the trapped members had been rescued from the Tham Luang cave after the operations concluded on Monday, while five still remained trapped.

 

• The first four boys were rescued on Sunday with nine people still trapped inside by the end of the operations.