Foreign divers, soldiers join rescue effort for children trapped in Thai cave

A team of US military personnel and British divers have joined rescue efforts at a flooded cave in northern Thailand where 12 children and their football coach have been trapped for five days.


Heavy overnight rain has hampered the search as floodwaters seeped into a second chamber of the Tham Luang cave in Chiang Rai province forcing some of the rescue divers to turn back, according to officials.

The children, aged between 11 and 16, went into the cave on Saturday and were trapped when heavy rains clogged the main entrance.

Around 1,000 Navy SEAL divers, police, soldiers, border guards and officials have been mobilised for the around-the-clock rescue in a remote border mountainous province near the Laos and Myanmar borders.
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 28/6/18
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