Rescuers braced for a long and difficult evacuation of 13 members of a Thai youth football team found alive in a cave nine days after they went missing, as food and medicine was shuttled to them through muddy waters on Tuesday.
The 12 young boys and their football coach were discovered rake thin and hungry on a mound of mud surrounded by water late on Monday. “(We will) prepare to send additional food to be sustained for at least four months and train all 13 to dive while continuing to drain the water,” Navy Captain Anand Surawan said. He refused to speculate how long they might be trapped, but experts said it could take weeks or even months.
In a Facebook post, the Thai Navy SEAL team said they were using a cave chamber as an “operations centre” to meticulously plan the evacuation alongside foreign expert divers.
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