Missing 12 boys and their football team coach are found ALIVE in a cave
NINE DAYS after they went missing in Thailand
Thailand, July 02: All 12 boys and their football team coach have been found alive after becoming trapped in a flooded cave for more than a week in Thailand.
Chang Rai governor Narongsak Osottanakorn told reporters that Thai Navy SEALs had found the group alive after nine days of desperate searching.
He added: 'We found them safe. But the operation isn't over.
'We will bring food to them and a doctor who can dive. I am not sure they can eat as they have not eaten for a while.'
He also said it was expected that in their condition, the boys would at first not be able to move their limbs, but medical teams would initially treat them in place.
An international search effort has gone on since the group went missing inside the Tham Luang cave.
The boys are aged 11 to 16 and are with their 25-year-old coach. They disappeared when flooding trapped them after entering the cave on June 23.
Their team is called the Moo Pa - or Wild Boar.
Narongsak said the passageway the divers were making their way through goes upwards in some places and downwards in others and is extremely narrow, making it difficult for divers to fit through with all their gear.
They were repeatedly blocked by rising water that has filled sections of the cave and forced them to withdraw for safety reasons.
When water levels dropped on Sunday, the divers went forward with a more methodical approach, deploying a rope line and extra oxygen supplies along the way.
Rescue divers spent much of today making preparations for what ended up being the final push in their search in the cave in northern Thailand.
Chiang Rai's governor said the divers had concentrated on securing a rope line and placing oxygen tanks along the narrow passageway that they thought would lead them to the boys.
Thai Navy SEAL divers and rescue workers from other countries made initial progress through the narrow passageway earlier today.
Public anticipation for the rescue has been high since Sunday, but officials avoided setting a timetable for the search and rescue operation.
In addition to the divers, teams have been working to pump out water as well as divert groundwater.
Other efforts have focused on finding shafts on the mountainside that might serve as a back door to the blocked-off areas where the missing may be sheltering.
Teams have been combing the mountainside looking for fissure that might lead to such shafts. Several have been found and explorers have been able to descend into some, but so far it is not clear whether they lead to anywhere useful.
Experts in cave rescues from around the world continued to gather at the site. An official Australian group has now followed a US military team, British cave experts, Chinese lifesaving responders and several other volunteer groups from various countries.
'These are challenging conditions and there's a lot of consideration for safety as well as, the environment outside is contributing to the environment inside,' said US Air Force Capt. Jessica Tait, part of a 30-strong US military team assisting in the search operation, referring to the rain that has been flooding the cave.
'So I'd say, yeah, it's an accurate statement that it's challenging.'
Courtesy: www.dailymail.co.uk
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UP: Misled by GPS navigation, car falls into river from partially constructed bridge, 3 dead
Bareilly (UP), Nov 24: Three people died when their car fell into the Ramganga river from a partially constructed bridge here on Sunday, police said, adding that they suspect the driver was misled by its navigation system into taking the unsafe route.
The accident occurred around 10 am on the Khalpur-Dataganj road when the victims were travelling from Bareilly to Dataganj in the Badaun district, they said.
"Earlier this year, floods had caused the front portion of the bridge to collapse into the river, but this change had not been updated in the system," Circle Officer Ashutosh Shivam said.
The driver was using a navigation system and did not realise that the bridge was unsafe, driving the car off the damaged section, the police said.
There were no safety barriers or warning signs on the approach to the damaged bridge, leading to the fatal accident, Shivam said.
Upon receiving information, police teams from Faridpur, Bareilly and Dataganj police station rushed to the spot. They recovered the vehicle and the bodies from the river, Shivam added.
The circle officer said that bodies had been sent for post-mortem. Further investigation into the matter is underway.
— Bareilly Police (@bareillypolice) November 24, 2024
