A single of 12 boys rescued from Thai cave dies at British university
BANGKOK — 1 of the 12 boys rescued from a flooded cave in Thailand in 2018 after currently being trapped for a lot more than two weeks has died in England, in which he was attending a sports activities academy, the foundation sponsoring his research said Wednesday.
Duangphet “Dom” Phromthep, 17, was uncovered unconscious Sunday in his area at the Brooke Dwelling Faculty Football Academy in Leicestershire and was taken to a clinic exactly where he died Tuesday, Thailand’s Zico Foundation mentioned. The school also verified his death.
“This celebration has left our university community deeply saddened and shaken,” faculty principal Ian Smith mentioned in a statement. “We unite in grief with all of Dom’s family, good friends, previous teammates and those people involved in all areas of his daily life, as effectively as everybody afflicted in any way by this decline in Thailand and in the course of the college’s world wide loved ones.”
Former Thai national group captain and mentor Kiatisuk Senamuang, who heads the Zico Basis, claimed in an on the net news conference that he did not know the induce of demise and that Dom experienced seemingly been in great health and fitness.
Dom was the captain of the Wild Boars, a youth soccer staff in the northern Thai province of Chiang Rai. Twelve users of the staff, ages 11 to 16, and their coach had been exploring the Tham Luang cave complex in June 2018 when they have been trapped by swiftly soaring floodwaters. A huge research and rescue procedure involving global divers was launched.
The boys expended 9 nights shed in the cave, residing on really tiny meals and h2o, prior to a diver spotted them deep in the twisting cave intricate huddled on a patch of grime earlier mentioned the climbing drinking water line. The second was captured on online video and shortly broadcast to the environment.
It was another 8 times before all had been safely rescued. A team of expert divers guided every of the boys out of the cave on specific stretchers after anesthetizing them to keep them calm plenty of to transport. The operation demanded putting oxygen canisters together the path exactly where the divers maneuvered via darkish, limited and twisting passageways loaded with muddy h2o and solid currents.
Dom’s mother, who joined the on-line information convention, explained she hoped a Buddhist monk in England could perform rites for Dom so his spirit would not be trapped where by he died in accordance to Buddhist beliefs.
The tale of the Wild Boars, which was coated intensely by worldwide media, has been retold in several motion pictures, which includes Ron Howard’s 2022 feature film “Thirteen Life” and the 2021 documentary “The Rescue.”