UPDATE: It took three days, but rescue workers have now pulled all 12 boys from a youth soccer team and their coach out of a flooded cave in northern Thailand.
Thai Navy SEALs gave this update on their Facebook page on Tuesday:
“All 12 wild boars and the coach have left the cave. all safe. Now waiting to receive 4 divers to come out. Hooyah."
#Video of Ambulance leaving the site with all 12 boys and football coach rescued from Thai cave #ThailandCaveRescue #WildBoars #Thailand #CaveRescue #ThamLuang #ThamLuangCave #rescueteams #Thailand pic.twitter.com/Czw0sYJwFw
— TVW News (@tvwnewsindia) July 10, 2018
The boys are all healthy and safe, according to multiple reports.
BREAKING: All 12 boys and their coach from the youth soccer team trapped in a flooded Thai cave for nearly three weeks have now been rescued, according to an eyewitness who is part of the rescue operations https://t.co/am3NCT5I8z pic.twitter.com/wC9S9VdEYi
— CNN (@CNN) July 10, 2018
Officials suspended the rescue operation on Monday, after pulling an eighth boy from the cave, leaving four boys and their coach still inside.
BREAKING: An 8th boy has been rescued from the Thai cave as operations to free the youth soccer team continues. Four boys and their coach remain inside the cave.
— CNN (@CNN) July 9, 2018
Live updates: https://t.co/PCOxexzI3L pic.twitter.com/em3WBS9N2x
A total of eight boys were removed from the cave on Sunday and Monday.
A fifth boy has been rescued and is on his way to hospital. The ambulance has just passed us at the cave site #ThaiCaveRescue pic.twitter.com/VO8Sy6DYog
— Debi Edward (@debiedwarditv) July 9, 2018
The 12 boys, part of a youth soccer team known as the Wild Boars, first went missing with their coach more than two weeks ago.
Twelve boys and their soccer coach have been found alive in a cave in Thailand after going missing nine days ago, an official says. Follow live updates: https://t.co/Woh972K2w3 pic.twitter.com/49oTabfxzW
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) July 2, 2018
They were discovered alive last Monday deep inside the flooded cave system.
It's been more than 36 hours since the 12 boys and their soccer coach were located in the Thai cave network -- a new video shows them wrapped in foil blankets, introducing themselves and saying, "I am healthy." https://t.co/s11DYSVYIz pic.twitter.com/Y3Omry7NtK
— CNN (@CNN) July 4, 2018
MORE: Trapped Thai soccer team learning to swim and scuba dive
Officials said on Sunday that it may "take days" to rescue all 12 boys and their coach.
Each boy is being accompanied by two divers through the dark and complex cave system.
Sharing some infographics on the Thai Cave Rescue & some text on the coach. This is a worldwide effort with international divers, doctors, and volunteers from many nations. Humanity is a beautiful thing. They are almost home! pic.twitter.com/oG3oRGonty
— Sara K. Ahmed (@SaraKAhmed) July 8, 2018
The first part of the rescue involves elite divers who are holding the boys' oxygen tanks in front of them as they are escorted through narrow submerged holes.
Once that task is complete, the boys are then handed over to a team of specialist who are assisting them through the remainder of the cave, much of which they can wade through.
The Thai Navy released a video on Facebook showing the moment the group was found alive by British divers last Monday.
WATCH: The moment a trapped soccer team were found in a cave in Thailand. #9News Read more: https://t.co/UTpKsWNDGS pic.twitter.com/GwBXVVW6Mh
— Nine News Queensland (@9NewsQueensland) July 3, 2018