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Thailand cave rescue: Navy SEALS chief says they 'worked till they forgot the time' to save 12 trapped schoolboys
•Thailand Navy SEALS chief said that the team worked with "grit and daring" until they "forgot the time" to save the 12 trapped schoolboys
Thailand cave rescue: Discipline and courage finally win as absence of politics, gamesmanship result in 13 saved lives
Bikram Vohra •Now that the rescue is over, the agony of suspense ended, the government of Thailand, its armed forces and its guts and glory divers need to be given a standing ovation for their professional conduct and their commitment shown in putting their lives on the line.
Thai boys, football coach found after being trapped in flooded Tham Luang cave for nine days
•Twelve boys and their football coach trapped in a flooded Thai cave for nine days were "found safe" late Monday, in a miracle rescue after days of painstaking searching by divers.
Thailand cave rescue: Officials contemplate ways to extract trapped football team after forecast of heavy rains on weekend
•A Thai firefighter said that levels in parts of a passage leading to a chamber where the boys and the coach were found on Monday was still flooded all the way to the ceiling, making diving the only way out.
Heavy rains disrupt operations to rescue 12 children trapped in Thailand cave; US military personnel join effort
•A team of US military personnel and British divers joined rescue efforts at a flooded cave in northern Thailand where 12 children and their football coach have been trapped for five days as heavy overnight rains hampered the search.
Under-16 soccer team, coach feared trapped in flooded Thailand cave; navy hopeful of rescuing them
•The bicycles and soccer boots of 13 members of an Under-16 soccer team were found at the mouth of the Tham Luang caves, in the northern province of Chiang Rai, after they went missing.