Thailand’s nail-biting cave rescue operation of 12 trapped schoolboys and their football coach is still underway. Rescue workers have freed six out of the 13 people who have been trapped in Thailand’s Khao Luang cave for more than two weeks, the Kyodo news agency reported earlier. On June 23, national park employees discovered a motorbike, bicycles and sports equipment near an entrance to the Tham Khao Luang Cave. They contacted the local football club, which confirmed to them that the items discovered belonged to schoolchildren aged from 11 to 16 and their 25-year-old coach. The cave stretches almost 10 km and has several entrances and exits, as well as large galleries in which the missing people could have hidden from the rising waters. To find out more details, see the images from the site.
Thailand cave rescue operation
Rescuers are working at a cave site in northern Thailand to bring 12 boys and their coach out of the flooded cave system
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Thai forest rangers examine a map during the ongoing rescue operations for the child football team and their assistant coach, at a mountain forest near Tham Luang cave in Khun Nam Nang Non Forest Park, Thailand
© EPA-EFE/RUNGROJ YONGRIT The mothers and family members of Thai boys who are trapped inside a cave react as authorities announce the death of a former Thai Navy Seal rescue diver during the ongoing rescue operations
© EPA-EFE/RUNGROJ YONGRIT Emergency workers carry a stretcher with one of the rescued boys to be transported by ambulance to a hospital, in Mae Sai, Thailand
© Chiang Rai Public Relations Office via AP Soldiers carry a pump to help drain the rising flood water in a cave
© AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit Thai rescuers prepare to search for chimneys for a drilling option during the ongoing rescue operations at a mountain forest near Tham Luang cave in Thailand
© EPA-EFE/RUNGROJ YONGRIT Thai soldiers drag water pipes that will help bypass water from entering the cave
© AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit Thai rescue teams arrange water pumping system at the entrance to the cave
© Royal Thai Navy via AP Thai rescue team members walk inside the cave
© Royal Thai Navy via AP Thai rescue team members walk inside the cave
© Royal Thai Navy via AP Boys smile as Thai Navy SEAL medic help injured children inside a cave in Mae Sai, northern Thailand
© Royal Thai Navy Facebook Page via AP Two ambulances arrive near the cave to wait for more evacuations of the boys and their coach who have been trapped since June 23
© AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit A Thai well wisher puts a poster to pray for boys and their coach in Mae Sai, northern Thailand
© AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit Family members pray near the cave where 12 boys and their coach have been trapped since June 23 in northern Thailand
© AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit