THAILAND FLOODED CAVE
Rescuers rush against time to save team ahead of more rain
Chiang rai, Thailand — Rescuers raced to pump water from a cave in northern Thailand on Tuesday as forecast heavy rain threatened to complicate efforts to free a young soccer team found trapped for 10 days, an ordeal officials warned they may have to bear even longer. Divers struggling through narrow passages and murky waters found the 12 boys and their coach late on Monday on an elevated rock about 4km from the mouth of the cave. The boys were weak but had only minor injuries. News of the survival of the Wild Boar team sparked jubilation in a nation gripped by the harrowing drama, with news websites and Facebook users celebrating their discovery 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.
A video shot by the rescuers in flickering torchlight revealed boys clad in shorts and red and blue shirts sitting or standing on the rock above wate...
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