Thailand

The dozen boys and their football coach’s ordeal began two and a half weeks ago when they first became trapped in the flooding caves. It took nine days before they were found deep below ground, cowering on a mud shelf. They finally began to be brought out on Sunday and today we saw the first…

“We did something nobody thought possible,” the leader of the Thai cave rescue mission declared today after the last trapped boys and their coach were finally freed, ending their 17-day ordeal. The dangerous, highly complex operation was launched after the group became stranded deep inside the flooded cave. They’ll now be in hospital for at…

Four schoolboys have been rescued from the flooded cave in northern Thailand. We are at the scene in Mae Sai.

In northern Thailand  rescuers say they could be ready to start bringing out the 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave as soon as tomorrow. But if there’s more rain – who knows what risks they could face.

They were found alive after an exhaustive nine-day search, but now the race to free 12 boys and their football coach from deep inside a flooded cave in Thailand has got even more urgent, with monsoon rains on the way. A Thai Navy SEALs team has managed to reach the boys with food and energy…