12 Thai boys and their soccer coach trapped in cave
Members of the rescued soccer team and their coach sit during a press conference discussing their ordeal in the cave in Chiang Rai, northern Thailand, Wednesday, July 18, 2018.
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Twelve boys and their soccer coach were rescued from a flooded cave in northern Thailand, ending an 18-day ordeal that riveted people around the world.
Banphot Konkum, the uncle of Duangpetch Promthep, one of the boys rescued from a flooded cave, right, and their other members of his family watch Duangpetch and the rest of the boys live on television recalling their ordeal in the cave at his home in Mae Sai district, Chiang Rai province, northern Thailand, Wednesday, July 18, 2018.
(Sakchai Lalit / AP)A helicopter believed to be carrying one of the boys rescued from the flooded cave lands in Chiang Rai as divers continued to extract the remaining boys and their coach trapped at Tham Luang cave in the Mae Sai district in Chiang Rai province, northern Thailand, on July 10, 2018.
(Vincent Thian / AP)Rescuers walk toward the entrance to a cave complex where five were still trapped in Mae Sai, Chiang Rai province, northern Thailand, on July 10, 2018.
(Sakchai Lalit / AP)Hospital workers watch a press conference at their hospital where rescued boys are tended to, in Chiang Rai province, northern Thailand, on July 10, 2018.
(Vincent Thian / AP)Onlookers watch and cheer as ambulances transport some of the rescued schoolboys from a helipad to a hospital on July 9, 2018 in Chiang Rai, Thailand.
(Lauren DeCicca / Getty Images)Thai soldiers drag water pipes that will help bypass water from entering a cave where 12 boys and their soccer coach have been trapped since June 23, in Mae Sai, Chiang Rai province, in northern Thailand Saturday, July 7, 2018.
(Sakchai Lalit / AP)Thai soldiers try to connect water pipes that will help bypass water from entering a cave where 12 boys and their soccer coach have been trapped since June 23, in Mae Sai, Chiang Rai province, in northern Thailand Saturday, July 7, 2018.
(Sakchai Lalit / AP) Family members pray near a cave where 12 boys and their soccer coach have been trapped since June 23, in Mae Sai, Chiang Rai province, in northern Thailand Saturday, July 7, 2018.
(Sakchai Lalit / AP) Thai military honor guards transport a coffin containing the remains of a former Thai Navy Seal Petty Officer 1st class Saman Kunan, who died in the ongoing Tham Luang cave rescue operations, during a repatriation ceremony at Mae Fah Luang international airport in Chiang Rai province, Thailand, July 06, 2018.
(Rungroj Yongrit/EPA)Thai military personnel bring water pumps to the cave on July 6, 2018 in Chiang Rai, Thailand where 12 boys and their soccer coach have been found alive in the cave where they’ve been missing for over a week after monsoon rains blocked the main entrance in northern Thailand.
(Lauren DeCicca / Getty Images)Rescue workers at the Tham Luang cave area as operations continue on July 5, 2018.
(Lillian Suwanrumpha/ AFP/Getty Images)Pumps at the entrance of Tham Luang Nang Non cave to lower the water level inside the cave on July 05, 2018.
(Linh Pham / Getty Images)Family members pray before a shrine in the Tham Luang cave area as rescue operations continue on July 5, 2018.
(Ye Aung Thu / AFP/Getty Images)A happy family member shows the latest pictures taken by rescue divers of the missing boys inside Tham Luang cave.
(Lillian Suwanrumpha / AFP/Getty Images)Family members of the 12 boys and their soccer coach watch a video clip of the boys on television after they were found alive, in Mae Sai, Chiang Rai province, in northern Thailand, on July 4, 2018.
(Sakchai Lalit / AP)A family member smiles after hearing the news that the missing 12 boys and their soccer coach have been found, in Mae Sai, Chiang Rai province, in northern Thailand, Monday, July 2, 2018.
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