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A video grab handout made available by Thai Royal Navy shows some of the members of the trapped football team. Royal Thai Navy / EPA
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A video grab handout made available by Thai Royal Navy shows some of the members of the trapped football team. Royal Thai Navy / EPA
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Rescuers carry water piping at the entrance to a cave complex where the 12 boys and their football coach were trapped inside when heavy rains flooded the cave, in Mae Sai, Chiang Rai province, in northern Thailand. Sakchai Lalit / AP Photo
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A foreign diver carries equipment as he goes in to Tham Luang cave complex. Soe Zeya Tun / Reuters
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Some of the members of a trapped football team in a section of Tham Luang cave in Khun Nam Nang Non Forest Park, Chiang Rai province, Thailand. Royal Thai Navy / EPA
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A video grab handout made available by Thai Royal Navy shows a Thai military medic providing first aid to a member of the trapped football team in a section of Tham Luang cave in Khun Nam Nang Non Forest Park. Thai Royal Navy / EPA
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A video grab handout made available by Thai Royal Navy shows some of the members of the trapped football team. Royal Thai Navy / EPA
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A video grab handout made available by Thai Royal Navy shows some of the members of the trapped football team. Royal Thai Navy / EPA
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A video grab handout made available by Thai Royal Navy shows some of the members of the trapped football team. Royal Thai Navy / EPA
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A video grab handout made available by Thai Royal Navy shows some of the members of the trapped football team. Royal Thai Navy / EPA
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A video grab handout made available by Thai Royal Navy shows some of the members of the trapped football team. Royal Thai Navy / EPA
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Rescuers carry water piping at the entrance to a cave complex where the 12 boys and their football coach were trapped inside when heavy rains flooded the cave, in Mae Sai, Chiang Rai province, in northern Thailand. Sakchai Lalit / AP Photo
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A foreign diver carries equipment as he goes in to Tham Luang cave complex. Soe Zeya Tun / Reuters
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Some of the members of a trapped football team in a section of Tham Luang cave in Khun Nam Nang Non Forest Park, Chiang Rai province, Thailand. Royal Thai Navy / EPA
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A video grab handout made available by Thai Royal Navy shows a Thai military medic providing first aid to a member of the trapped football team in a section of Tham Luang cave in Khun Nam Nang Non Forest Park. Thai Royal Navy / EPA
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A video grab handout made available by Thai Royal Navy shows some of the members of the trapped football team. Royal Thai Navy / EPA
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A video grab handout made available by Thai Royal Navy shows some of the members of the trapped football team. Royal Thai Navy / EPA
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A video grab handout made available by Thai Royal Navy shows some of the members of the trapped football team. Royal Thai Navy / EPA
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A video grab handout made available by Thai Royal Navy shows some of the members of the trapped football team. Royal Thai Navy / EPA
Thai cave rescue: everything we know so far
How did the boys get trapped in the cave? How were they rescued?
Charles Capel
11 July, 2018
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