The rescue operation to liberate the twelve Thai footballers and their trainer from a flooded cave has begun. Eighteen divers have been sent into the cave to save the boys. This was communicated to the manager of the operation at a press conference.
The Belgian diver Ben Reymenants, who is part of the rescue team, says that the first four boys will probably be removed from the cave on Sunday. In this rescue operation, the boys are accompanied by divers.
The young Thai football players who are stuck in a flooded cave have sent letters to their parents and their relatives. The coach of the football team has apologized to the parents in a letter, reports BBC.
There seems to be no end to the problems that arise when trying to save the Thai football players and their coach from their plight. The latest news: the oxygen level drops in the cave where the boys shelter from the water.
At least ten people were killed in a boat accident near the Thai island of Phuket. Dozens of other people, especially Chinese tourists, are still missing, reports the newspaper Bangkok Post.
During the rescue work of the twelve Thai football players and their trainer in a cave complex in the north of Thailand, a diver was killed. The rescue worker had become unconscious when he was placing oxygen masks along the potential escape route.
The Thai Tourism Bureau (TAT) wants to develop the cave where twelve young footballers and their coach are stuck, to become a tourist attraction. TAT director Karuna Dechatiwong told the Bangkok Post newspaper that she is going to talk with regional administrators and the business community about the possibilities to promote the cave among tourists.
The young Thai football players who are stuck in a cave get a diving course diving and swimming. The authorities warn that it will be a big challenge to get the youngsters and their trainer out of the cave system. 'The current is very strong and there is little room', says Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan.
The Thai authorities have released a new video of the twelve football players who have been stuck in a cave for days. In the video you can see that most guys wear an insulation blanket. The footballers also introduce themselves and say: 'I am in good health.'
Two doctors of the Thai navy have offered to stay with the boys in the cave, even though the heavy rainfall may take up to four months before the team can leave the cave.
The young Thai football players who are trapped in a flooded cave system may get in touch with their parents again on Tuesday. The authorities establish a telephone connection so that they can speak directly to the group, says governor Narongsak Osotthanakorn of Chiang Rai province.
The parents and relatives of the Thai football players who were stuck in a cave system for nine days are extremely relieved and happy. Only broadly smiling Thai can be seen on the photographs taken out.
The twelve boys and their football coach were found alive in a cave system in Thailand. The team had been missing for nine days.
Rescue workers in Thailand are approaching the spot where a youth football team may be stuck in a flooded cave system. Divers of an army unit are less than 500 meters from the space where the twelve teenagers and their coach may have sought a safe haven.
A military rescue team from America has arrived in Thailand to help in the search for the twelve teenagers and their football coach missing in a cave complex in the north of the country.
The Thai Seals do everything they can to get the Thai soccer team, which has been missing since a Saturday in a cave complex in the north of the country, alive above ground. Rescue workers are drilling a deep shaft to free the players and the coach. The rescue operation is difficult because the caves have been flooded by heavy rainfall.
A rescue team from the Thai navy fights against a ticking clock and rising water level to save twelve boys from a football team and their trainer from a flooded cave in the north of the country.
A Thai youth football team has been stuck in a cave in the northern province of Chiang Rai since this weekend. The players were surprised by a sudden flooding after which they could not go any further. It concerns twelve boys between the ages of eleven and fifteen and their 25-year-old coach.
The army of Myanmar is continuously continuing with its brutal violence against minorities in the country. After the exodus of Rohingya Muslims, the soldiers have struck hard against the Kachin in the mountainous north.
An Australian child abuser and his former partner have been sentenced to life sentences in the Philippines. Australian by Peter Gerard Scully sold according to the court images of the abuse via the Internet to 'customers' abroad, reports the Filipino news website Rappler.
Thai veterinarians found eighty pieces of plastic with a total weight of eight kilos in their stomach during an autopsy of a dead whale. The beast succumbed during a five-day action to save him.
A whale died after the animal had swallowed more than eighty plastic bags. The Thai Ministry of Public Works has made an attempt to control the life of the mammal, but this was of no avail.
A Thai man was killed by a confrontation with a herd of elephants. The victim and other villagers tried to keep a group of about thirty of the wild animals away from their crops, the newspaper Bangkok Post reported.
After the wave of violence that erupted against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar last year, a baby boom is now expected in the refugee camps just across the border in Bangladesh.
The 29-year-old Moldavian owner of the child pornography platform dismantled by the Dutch police, ran his business from the holiday paradise Thailand. From sun-drenched beach resorts, he enabled over 50,000 customers via servers in the Netherlands to exchange child pornography and other illegal content.
In Lumpini, one of the largest parks in Bangkok, an ambitious picnic takes place: around two hundred activists have gathered to talk about cannabis. Smoking cannabis on this spot is out of the question. High punishments in Thailand alone apply to the possession of marijuana for personal use. So they look out. Even alcohol and cigarettes are forbidden in the park, let alone joints.
A 21-year-old Dutch tourist died after a fall from a balcony in Bangkok
In the busy traffic on the first day of the Thai New Year's festival, Songkran, five hundred traffic casualties have fallen on Wednesday. Thai media reported that there were 447 traffic accidents in which 39 people were killed and 461 injured.
Tens of Rohingya refugees arrived by boat in Thailand on Sunday, where they were stranded after a storm. According to local authorities, it is the first time in more than a year that Rohingya is visiting Thailand. Human rights organizations fear that more will cross the dangerous crossing, because of crowded camps in Bangladesh.
In Thailand, at least eighteen people were killed in a heavy bus accident. The bus driver lost control and drove a tree, let the police know. Of the 52 occupants, another 32 people were injured, eight of whom are in mortal danger.
