Ninth boy rescued from Thai cave

July 10, 2018 15:05

One more boy of the remaining four and the coach has been rescued from the flooded Thai cave, taking the number of rescued persons to nine. Rescuers will today extract all the remaining persons who have been trapped deep inside the cave for 18 days, the mission chief said.

However, heavy rains are threatening their perilous escape route.

With rain again pounding the cave site in a mountainous region in northern Thailand on Tuesday morning, rescuers said they were aiming to bring out the remaining four boys and their coach by the evening.

"(They) will be extracted today," rescue chief Narongsak Osottanakorn told reporters, adding the journey out should be faster than on previous two days.

With the emergence of the second batch of four boys on Monday evening, the number of rescued persons reached eight.

"All eight are in good health, no fever... everyone is in a good mental state," Jedsada Chokdamrongsuk, permanent secretary of the public health ministry, told reporters on Tuesday.

However the boys would remain in quarantine until doctors were sure they had not contracted any infections from inside the cave. -- Agencies

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