Around 1,000 Navy SEAL divers, police, soldiers, border guards with sniffer dogs and officials have been mobilised for the around-the-clock rescue in a remote border mountainous province near the Laos and Myanmar borders.

A team of American military personnel from the US Pacific Command, including pararescue and survival specialists, arrived at the site overnight to help rescue operations, according to an embassy spokeswoman.

"Operators are trained in personnel recovery tactics and techniques and procedures,"


Three British cave diving experts arrived at the scene late Wednesday and entered the cave in full kit before emerging about an hour later.

"We've got a job to do," diver John Volanthen said as he went into the tunnel, declining to speak further.


Border guards with police dogs scoured the site for new openings into the cave,which is several kilometres (miles) long.Families brought clothing belonging to the kids to help the sniffer dogs find the team.

Search teams found three new holes this week, but only one of the chimneys was accessible.

The Tham Luang cave is a popular draw for local visitors during the dry season, though a sign at the entrance warns tourists not to enter during the wet seasonfrom July to November.

Official said the football team and their coach Ekkapol Janthawong have been in the cave before and know the site well.


The complex cave is infamous for being a tough site for skilled divers because of its complicated network of tunnels and pools.

Senior Thai government officials warned Wednesday that time is running out to rescue teenage boys and their soccer coach, believed trapped in a flooded cave complex in northern Thailand for days, and that the search to find other entry points into the cave system has taken on a new urgency.

"We will try to find other ways apart from underwater rescue because the clock is ticking," Thai Interior Minister Anupong Paochinda said.

No new evidence of the boys' location or condition has been found, other than their bikes, bags, shoes, and foot prints discovered earlier this week, army Maj. Gen. Chalongchai Chaiyakum told journalists.

The group is from the city of Chiang Rai, near the caves where the boys are suspected of being trapped.
They have been missing since at least early Saturday afternoon when a park officer spotted bicycles parked idly by the entrance to the cave complex despite it being off-limits.

Those bikes have been gathered and grouped together as the boys' families await news.

The boys and their coach are believed to have crawled into the large series of caves through a narrow, 15-meter-long (50-foot) channel.

A sign at the entrance to the cave a popular tourist attraction warns of danger during the rainy season, which is just getting underway.

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Which kind of horror is this nitori Olohun?

It is well

I hope they are found.....
There are deep horrors in the dark not to talk of cold,hunger n ravenous reptiles...

Hmmmm

ok

U.S. Military and British cave experts landed in Thailand to join the search and rescue.


The map of the cave .

In this photo released by the Thailand Department of National Parks and Wildlife, Wednesday, June 27, 2018, rescue personnel search for alternate entrances to a cave where 12 boys of a soccer team and their coach went missing in Mae Sai, Chiang Rai, northern Thailand.

Rain is continuing to fall and water levels keep rising inside a cave in northern Thailand, frustrating the search for the boys and their coach who have been missing since Saturday.


Thai soldiers bring hoses and additional water pumps to continue the search for 12 young soccer team members and their coach after going missing in Tham Luang Nang Non cave in Mae Sai, Chiang Rai province, northern Thailand Wednesday, June 27, 2018.


Their bikes can be seen abandoned in the cave.

Prayer offerings are displayed as rescue workers continue the search for the young soccer team and their coach.

Relatives of 12 young soccer team members and their coach pray for their rescue after going missing in the large cave.

See how a country where human lives are valued reacted.
If this had happened in Nigeria, even some of the local residents where they went missing wouldn't bother to raise any alarm.


Nigeria(n)s..... I hail thee

They are probably dead by now.

Too many bad news these days.

Soldiers and rescue workers carry a water pump to the Tham Luang cave complex June 28, 2018.

Rescue workers are seen in Tham Luang caves during a search for 12 members of an under-16 soccer team and their coach, in the northern province of Chiang Rai, Thailand, June 27, 2018.

Thai PM visits cave where youth soccer team feared trapped.


“Whatever can be done, do it, the government will back it,” said Prayuth.

“I’m not worried about the work of the staff but I’m worried about time elapsed for those lost inside the cave … I’ve come to give everyone encouragement.”

International rescue teams, including one sent by the United States Pacific Command (PACOM), are helping the Thai army, navy and police in a search operation that has been hampered by heavy rain.




The team abandoned their bike near the entrance of the cave.

Emergency rescue teams gather in the staging area as they continue the search for a young soccer team and their coach believed to be missing in the large cave.

Bicycles left by a group of boys and their coach who went missing line the entrance to a cave.

U.S. Special Operations Command Pacific Search and Rescue team personnel walk in a cave where a young soccer team and their coach are believed to be missing, Thursday, June 28, 2018.

God please help these kids

I pray that they are eventually rescued but if found alive , that coach needs to be prosecuted

I hope they are found.

But come to think of it, if na naija Shey the government go make moves at all?

Reactions

Just 13 people, seehow the govt is reacting. In Nigeria, who even send you.

Whew! May the echoes of love and hope never depart from them. It is well.

5 days... it will be a miracle if these children are found alive

Hmmmmn. But wetin carry dem enter cave in the first place? They are soccer players for God’s sake, dem wan go play soccer for inside cave? Na jeje trouble go sleep.
Pray they are okay.