Thailand cave rescue: Eight rescued, Thai PM arrives, live updates
Thai PM Prayut Chan-ocha has arrived at the Tham Luang caves to inspect the operation and meet with family members after eight boys were rescued | VIDEO
Hello and welcome to the second day of our live coverage of the rescue operation in Thailand to bring out 12 boys and their coach from the flooded cave. Amanda Hodge is reporting from the Tham Luang cave site at Mae Sai, Thailand.
11.45pm: Thai PM arrives
Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha has now arrived at the Tham Luang caves to inspect the rescue operation and meet with family members.
His arrival comes 90 minutes after the last of four boys was rescued from the flooded cave tonight, bringing the total number of young footballers evacuated since Sunday to eight.
Thai Navy SEALS confirmed the rescue of another four tonight on their Facebook page, using the code name for the boys who belong to the Wild Boar football club.
The post signs off with the signature Thai NavySEALS battle cry, “Hooyah”.
All four boys rescued tonight have been sent to the Chiang Rai hospital where those team members rescued Sunday are spending a second night in quarantine.
Five remaining members of the team, possibly including the 25-year-old coach, will spend what rescuers hope will be their last night underground.
They are all expected to be rescued tomorrow.
10.10pm: Eight boys taken from cave
We are hearing that two more people have now been rescued tonight from the Tham Luang Caves in northern Thailand, bringing the total number of boys evacuated from the cave tonight to four.
Rescuers brought the seventh and eighth young footballers out of the cave within minutes of each other around 7pm. The first was brought out at around 4.30pm (7.30pm AEST) and the second around 90 minutes later.
At least one boy has already been choppered to the Chiang Rai hospital for medical assessment.
All four will have to spend up to 48 hours in quarantine while they undergo blood and urine tests as well lung X-rays.
The four boys rescued last night have already undergone those checks and authorities said tonight they were “all well”. They remained in quarantine last night.
Rescue chief Narongsak Osaththankorn said earlier this evening that they had not yet seen their families but that officials were considering allowing a visit — as long as the boys remained behind glass.
9.51pm: Total of seven rescued
The sixth and seventh members of a Thai soccer team have been pulled from a flooded cave on the second day of a huge rescue operation watched around the world.
Witnesses say the latest two boys were put on stretchers and carried out of the cave, putting the total of rescued boys so far on Monday as three. Thai navy officials say a fifth boy was rescued earlier in the day. The boys are part of a soccer team and their coach trapped in the cave since June 23.
The first four boys in the team were rescued on Sunday and are in a stable condition in hospital.
Authorities have said extracting the entire team from the cave could take up to four days.
Sunday’s mission involved 13 foreign divers - including six Australians - and five Thai navy Seals.
Two divers accompanied each of the boys, all of whom have been learning to dive only since July 2, when searchers found them.
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9.05pm: Sixth boy released
A sixth boy has been brought out of the Tham Luang cave, the second rescue for the day, and is being treated by medics at the site.
The fifth boy was brought out between 4.30 and 4.45pm (7.30-7.45pm AEST) today and has now arrived via helicopter at the Chiang Rai hospital where he will be kept in quarantine for at least 24 hours as he undergoes thorough medical assessment.
8.55pm: Video, believed to be of fifth boy, emerges
Video of an ambulance, believed to be carrying the fifth boy, driving to a helipad from the cave, has emerged. The vision shows a person stretchered from the ambulance and into the waiting helicopter.
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8.44pm: All signs point to fifth rescue
The ambulance drove toward a helipad, where a helicopter was seen taking off shortly after to the cheers of the crowd below. The same process was used on Sunday for at least one of the four boys rescued in the first attempt at getting the 12 boys and their coach out of the underground complex.
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8.18pm: Ambulance seen leaving rescue site
An ambulance with flashing lights has been seen leaving the Thai cave complex hours after latest operation to rescue trapped boys began, a helicopter also seen flying towards the site from where media are stationed.
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8.09pm: More of the latest rescue
Rescue workers in Thailand have carried a person on a stretcher away from a cave complex and into a waiting ambulance on Monday, a witness said. They are the first person to come out of the cave on the second day of the rescue mission.
The first four boys were rescued on Sunday and are in a stable condition in hospital, although their families say they haven’t been allowed to see them yet for fear of infection.
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7.53pm: Fifth boy ‘rescued’
There are reports which yet to be confirmed that a fifth boy has been rescued from the Tham Luang caves. CNN and Reuters are reporting the fifth boy was seen being stretchered from the cave at 4.27pm (7.27pm AEST) to a waiting ambulance. Helicopters are on standby at the rescue site.
7.00pm: Four rescued ‘kept away’ from parents
Four members of a Thai youth football team guided out of a flooded cave complex will not be allowed physical contact with their parents until the risk of infection has gone, the chief of the rescue bid said Monday.
“They (the four) will be kept away from their parents for a while because we are concerned about infections,” Narongsak Osottanakorn told reporters, adding doctors will decide on family visits “at a distance or through glass.”
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6.10pm: Second rescue mission confirmed
The Tham Luang rescue command chief has confirmed the second rescue mission has begun, with the next group of boys set to emerge in four-to-five hours.
Narongsak Osatanakorn said the second rescue mission commenced at 11am (2pm AEST), and said he expects “good news” in the coming hours.
“We have more teams coming in,” Mr Narongsak said. “I’m not going to tell you the numbers. Maybe after this.”
When asked which of the children would emerge next, he replied: “The perfect one. The most ready one.”
4.45pm: Second rescue ‘underway’
It is now looking more likely that the ambulances that drove past this hour are heading to the Tham Luang cave site in preparation to pick up more boys rescued from inside the cave.
The Australian was told this morning by a military source with knowledge of the plan that the second rescue was due to begin before 10am local time (1pm AEST) and that another four boys would be coming out later today.
That information is firming up.
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha is expected to go to the cave site soon to see the operation and speak to parents.
4.25pm: Tight restrictions near cave
Rescuers are working hard to keep details of the operation secret with all authorised personnel heading into the Tham Luang cave area required to hand over their mobile phones at a checkpoint a few hundred metres from the rescue area.
4.20pm: Another ambulance heads to cave area
Another ambulance races by, sirens blaring, 21 minutes after the last one. Both were heading in the direction of the Tham Luang caves.
This is the same pattern we saw last night when the first boys were emerging from the cave.
Chiang Rai Health official tells Thai media that families of those boys rescued can see the boys as soon as tonight but “no hugging, no kissing†until blood tests are returned, to ensure they did not pick up contagious diseases such as potentially fatal leptospirosis
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Thai Newspaper Kom Chad Lek is citing a senior health official as saying that families of the boys rescued last night should be able to see them as soon as this evening but that there could be “no hugging, no kissing”.
Dr Thongchai Lertwilairattanapong said the four boys had now undergone thorough medical assessments at Chiang Rai hospital and should be able to see their relatives this evening as long as there was no physical contact before the results of blood tests were known.
“Visitors will only be allowed to meet and talk to the patients,” he said. “No hugging or touching and they need to leave a one to two metre distance from the patients until the blood tests come back.”
Dr Thongchai, an inspector with the Chiang Rai health department, said doctors were still checking to make sure the boys had not contracted any serious infections inside the cave such as melioidosis or leptospirosis, a potentially fatal bacterial disease.
The boys have reportedly undergone blood tests, lung X-rays and urine tests.
Another concern is that the boys may suffer from refeeding syndrome which can occur in patients who are being renourished after suffering severe malnutrition or illness.
4.05pm: Renewed action near cave entrance
Fresh downpour now in Mae Sai after clear skies through the morning. Minutes ago an ambulance with sirens blaring raced past the media centre in the direction of Tham Luang caves where we are awaiting news about the second phase of the rescue effort.
The ambulance came within minutes of a chopper flying overhead in the direction of the caves, suggesting a fresh rescue may be imminent.
3.55pm: What we know so far
We are still waiting for news from Rescue Command in Mae Sai, Northern Thailand, about when the next group of boys will be freed from the flooded Tham Luang cave.
Here is what we know about today’s rescue:
* Four more boys will be rescued in the second phase of the operation, which authorities said would begin before 5pm (8pm AEST) this evening;
* It will take roughly nine hours from the time the divers enter the cave to extract each boy;
* Last night the first pair of boys emerged within ten minutes of each other. The second pair also emerged within ten minutes of each other, two hours later;
* The same team of 18 international and Thai divers, who are familiar with the terrain and the difficulties, will conduct today’s rescue, including Adelaide anaesthetist and medical extraction expert Richard Harris who is giving the all-clear ahead of each operation;
* Julie Bishop confirmed this morning that the boys were being extracted in staggered groups of four;
* Six Australian Federal Police Special Response divers will be part of the support team for today’s extraction and will likely be based in the command centre in Chamber 3, 1500m from the cave entrance;
* An advance team of divers was in the cave this morning placing refilled air tanks along the 3.2km route to where the eight remaining boys and their coach are awaiting evacuation;
* Families are yet to be reunited with the rescued boys as Thai officials insist on a period of quarantine in order to thoroughly assess the boys health;
* Thai PM Prayut Chan-ocha is due to fly to the cave site late this afternoon to speak to parents and oversee the rescue effort. There are reports he will come to the media centre for a press conference;
* The four boys rescued last night are “safe and well”, according to the Thai Interior Minister;
* 1000 people, including 90 divers from Thailand, Australia, Europe, the US, China and the UK are involved in the effort.
3.10pm: ‘I can help him with his homework’
Friends of the missing boys trapped inside the cave have said they will help them catch up on homework.
The Guardian is reporting that friends and teachers of those missing boys who attend Mae Sai Prasitsart school held a press conference this morning. They will hold another one at 1pm (4pm AEST) to try and avoid children being interviewed.
Kittichok Kankeaw, a teammate of Nuttawut Takamai — one of the trapped boys — said he would try to assist his friend to catch up at school, The Guardian wrote. “I can help him with his homework,” he said.
One teacher revealed the boys are supposed to sit exams next week but will be excused.
“They will not have to follow normal schedules,” Thongyaud Kejorn said.
Students and teachers are receiving counselling on how to treat the boys when they resume normal life and how to avoid “talk that hurts their feelings”.
2.50pm: Teachers, students discuss anxious wait
Students and teachers at the Mae Sai Prasitsart school where some of the Wild Boar footballers go to school will hold a press conference in just over an hour.
They are holding two press conferences today to allow friends, teammates and teachers of the trapped boys to talk to the media en masse to avoid disturbing the broader school community.
Still no word on a fresh media briefing from Rescue Command.
At this stage, we can say that a fresh rescue will happen some time before 5pm, as reported by the government-owned Thai News Agency.
One teacher at the Mae Sai Prasitsart School says she visits the cave every day and has donated food to rescuers. #ThaiCaveRescue pic.twitter.com/WjcLHWcMVz
— Coconuts (@coconutsdotco) July 9, 2018
2.20pm: Two more rescue trips planned?
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has indicated that lessons from the initial effort will be applied as two more groups of four are brought out of the cave, AAP reports.
The mission’s initial success has raised hopes for those still trapped, but officials say it could take four days to complete the entire rescue. Ms Bishop said
“It’s wonderful news and we are very relieved that the four boys have been evacuated,” Ms Bishop said.
“But the fact that it took so many hours underscores how precarious this whole mission is.”
2pm: Divers in repeat mission
Thailand’s interior minister says the same divers who staged last night’s rescue of the first four boys from the Tham Luang cave will also conduct today’s rescue because they know the cave conditions.
Anupong Paojinda said officials were now meeting to discuss the next stage of the operation and how to evacuate the remaining eight boys and their coach from the cave.
Anupong said divers needed to place more air canisters along the underwater route to where the boys and their coach are trapped. He said that process could take several hours.
He said the boys who were rescued on Sunday are strong and safe but need to undergo detailed medical checks.
Anupong said divers would first need to place more air tanks along the 3.2km route to where the boys have been sheltering for 16 days on a sandy slope, 3.2km from the cave mouth, and that process could take several hours.
Thai news site MThai has reported that the reason the boys are being quarantined as to spare the parents whose children have not yet been rescued and also to check to ensure they have not contracted any viruses inside the cave.
Thailand’s meteorological bureau has forecast a 60 per cent chance of rain today with predicted thunderstorms throughout the week
Thai news agency says operation will resume before 5pm though there are reports that the #thanluangcave site is already a hive of activity and that at least seven ambulances are in place
— amanda hodge (@hodgeamanda) July 9, 2018
1.30pm: Rescue ‘set to begin before 8pm’
Thai News Agency TNAMCOT English is reporting that the next rescue effort will resume before 5pm (8pm AEST) today as officials continue to work to refill oxygen tanks and put them in place. along the evacuation route.
The next rescue operation is expected to begin before 5 pm today as officials are working to refill oxygen tanks along the evacuation route in the cave: Mission Chief. #TNAMCOTEnglish #thaicave #rescue @TNAMCOT pic.twitter.com/6tnE4uNc6X
— TNAMCOT English (@TNAMCOTEnglish) July 9, 2018
Six Australian AFP divers will once again be part of the operation, likely at command base in Chamber 3, 1500 metres inside Tham Luang cave.
TNAMCOT is also citing Public Health Minister as saying all 12 boys and their coach will be given thorough medical check-ups after they’re rescued from the cave. He said the first four boys extracted from the cave are in good health.
Thai PM Prayut Chan-ocha is to come to Tham Luang cave this afternoon to provide support to rescuers after first flying into Phuket to be briefed on ongoing search and rescue for missing passengers from two capsized boats.
1.20pm: Activity seen at cave site
Still no word on a media briefing from rescue command chief Narongsak Osatanakorn yet.
The BBC is reporting activity at the Tham Luang cave site just now suggests the next rescue efforts could be underway or about to resume.
The Australian was told an hour ago by a military source with knowledge of the plan that - according to the schedule - divers should already have re-entered the cave to begin the extraction of a second group of boys, but we have not been able to confirm that.
However ambulances have been moved into place at the rescue site.
The operation paused last night after the fourth boy was brought out at 7.50pm (10.50pm AEST)
Rescue workers will have spent the night checking equipment and re-filling tanks while divers rest after a gruelling day.
Mr Narongsak said at last night’s briefing that the operation would resume in ten to 20 hours but would depend on several factors, including the weather and readiness of dive team. It has now been 15 hours since the fourth boy emerged from the cave.
Before the divers can go in for the second group of four boys, another team of divers must first place spare oxygen tanks at intervals along the route.
The round trip is taking roughly nine hours, two less than expected, although that may have changed if water levels have been affected by overnight rain.
Authorities have said divers are using three tanks during the dive to the sandy slope which is 3.2km inside the cave complex where eight boys and their coach are still waiting to be rescued, 16 days after they were first trapped inside by flash flooding.
That explains the lengthy delays.
But after torrential downpours last night and persistent rain overnight rescuers are all-too aware of the urgency of the situation.
1.10pm: 1000 people involved in rescue
The extraordinary rescue effort that is still on going has taken a support team of 1000 people including 90 divers from Thailand, Australia, the US, China, Europe and the UK, the London Times reports. At the heart of the rescue were 13 elite divers including members of a British caving team who discovered the boys last week.
Rachel Baxendale 12.40pm: ‘So relieved at rescue’
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has confirmed that 19 Australians were directly involved in the rescue mission, including six federal police divers who are specialists in this kind of rescue.
“We have navy clearance divers as well from the defence forces, and we have support crew assisting them,” Ms Bishop said.
She said Adelaide anaesthetist Richard Harris had been an essential part of the health assessments for the young boys to determine who can leave and in what order.
“I understand that he was working with the Thai medical team, actually in the cave to make the decisions about the order in which the boys were to be extracted,” Ms Bishop said.
“He is an experienced diver, which is of great benefit because he’s brought all that expertise to assist the Thai government in this rescue mission.
“We’re so relieved that four boys have been freed from the cave, but there are still eight to go plus the soccer coach, and we’re working very closely with the international team that has been put together under the guidance of the Thai government to ensure that all of the boys and their coach are extracted safely.”
12.30pm: Why rescued boys aren’t named
A Thai official has told local TV that authorities have not named the rescued boys because of concerns the psychological impact on those whose children were still inside would be too great. “They’re afraid it will affect the parents of kids who still remain inside,” the official said.
12.10pm: Families in dark over who is rescued
The Australian is being told by the father of a team member that none of the families are yet being told which boys have come out of the cave and that none have seen their children yet.
Umporn Sriwichai, the aunt of coach Ekkapol “Ake” Chantawong has also told The Australian this morning that none of the relatives have been told the names of the children who have been rescued.
“I asked the aunt of the boys but no one knows what’s happening there. It’s like everyone is keeping it secret.
“Even in the cave no one knows the name. When they were pulling out the kids there were hundreds of people there but no one sees who the boys are.
“They all know four people came out but we don’t know whose sons they are.”
11.30am: Rain eases ahead of rescue
The rain has eased in Mae Sai this morning after a night of persistent drizzle. We are now waiting for confirmation of a 10am (1pm AEST) press conference to find out when the next rescues will occur.
To recap; four of the 13 young footballers trapped inside Tham Luang cave were rescued at 5.40pm, 5.50, 7.40 and 7.50 local time.
All four were choppered to the Chiang rai hospital 60km away.
We understand the first two to emerge were 13-year-old Mongkol “Mark Boonpium and Prachak “Note” Sutham, 14, though officials have not yet confirmed any names.
Umporn Sriwichai, the aunt of coach Ekkapol “Ake” Chantawong, told The Australian last night that relatives waiting at the cave were not immediately being told the names of those emerging.
Rescue teams suspended the operation after the first four were brought out last night to check on equipment and refill oxygen tanks.
Rescue command chief Narongsak Osatanakorn said at a 9.00pm (AEST midnight) media briefing last night the evacuations had been more successful than expected.
But it would be between ten and 20 hours before the next rescues would begin.
There is still some confusion over whether the strongest were the first to emerge or the weakest.
The Australian asked Mr Narongsak that question last night and he said the strongest came out first.
There have been mixed reports on this however with others reporting that Australian doctor Richard Harris, who gave the all-clear for the rescue yesterday, had asked for the weakest to be brought out first.
We will try to clarify this morning,
11.25am: More on Australian doctor Richard Harris
More on Richard Harris, the Adelaide anaesthetist who is playing a critical role in the rescue.
One former colleague says there are very good reasons why British caving experts working with Thai authorities at the site asked for his help. Bill Griggs used to be Dr Harris’ boss at South Australia’s emergency medical retrieval service, MedSTAR, where the anaesthetist still works. “To do cave-diving, you have to be all about attention to detail and you have to be meticulous,” Dr Griggs has told ABC radio.
“The combination of his medical knowledge and his cave diving skills was clearly (why) the British guys requested that he come as well.” Dr Harris, who has 30 years of diving experience, is well known in the cave diving community, including as the leader of record-breaking missions to explore a dark and dangerous underwater cave system on New Zealand’s South Island. In 2011 and 2012, he led a team of Aussie divers to record depths of 194 and 221 metres in what is believed to be one of the world’s deepest cold water caves, searching for the source of the Pearse River.
He filmed the dangerous and complex mission for National Geographic. It required the team to set up a series of survival pods at intervals to allow divers to decompress, rest and eat in the near-freezing waters along the length of an underwater river — an experience that could prove invaluable in the current rescue mission.
Dr Harris’s dive team also had to contend with fast flowing water, as is the case in parts of the Thai cave complex, in water that was near freezing point. The rescue divers and boys in Thailand must dive, swim and climb their way to safety along a pitch-black tunnel that at points is barely big enough to allow an adult human body to wriggle through.
David Strike has known Dr Harris for more than 10 years and says his unique skill set gives the boys every chance of making it out.
“It’s an overused term, but all of those involved are true heroes,” he told Fairfax media.
11.05am: Waiting for rescue to begin
Still no word on when the second rescue operation will begin. Last night, Thai authorities gave 8am local time (11am AEST) as the starting time but rescue workers may still be working on preparations, including refilling air tanks.
Meanwhile, a light rain is continuing to fall; rain, of course, is the great enemy in this operation with fears the caves could flood again.
Light rain continued overnight here in Mae Sai district ahead of the next wave of rescues. Still waiting for confirmation of when they will start. To recap; four of the 13 young footballers rescued last night. Nine spent another night in flooded #thamluangcave
— amanda hodge (@hodgeamanda) July 9, 2018
10.50am: Sub manoeuvres ‘choke point’
If Elon Musk’s kiddie sized submarine makes it over to Thailand in time to bring out any of the boys, this is how he would travel through the narrow passage- or “choke point” that is the hardest part of the cave to traverse.
Simulating maneuvering through a narrow passage pic.twitter.com/2z01Ut3vxJ
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 9, 2018
10.36am: Latest video update
The first schoolboys have been rescued by Navy SEALs after being trapped in the Thai cave system for two weeks. Here’s the latest video wrap of events from Thailand.
9.20am: Aussie doctor at heart of rescue
An Australian doctor and cave diving expert has played a critical role in the precarious mission to save the boys from their prison cave. Adelaide anaesthetist Richard Harris, who has 30 years of diving experience and has led cave rescue and recovery missions before, risked his own life on Saturday to make the treacherous journey to the chamber where the boys have been trapped for 15 days.
Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop says Dr Harris’ expertise is in high demand as the rescue mission rolls on, with the aid of 19 Australians. “He has a diving support partner with him as well. The Australian doctor was in the cave — he was part of the medical assessment to determine that the boys were fit enough to dive and swim to freedom,” she said. Dr Harris continues to play a key role in the ongoing international effort to get the remaining eight boys and their coach to safety.
Rescue divers and the boys must dive, swim and climb their way to safety along a pitch-black tunnel that at points is barely big enough to allow an adult human body to wriggle through.
Those who know Dr Harris say his unique set of skills to give the ongoing rescue the best chance of success.
9.10am: Coach ‘among first brought out’
Thai media is reporting that one of the four rescued from the cave was the boys’ coach, Ekapol Chantawong, 25. The Bangkok Post reports that Mr Chantawong was brought out because he was in poor condition after giving his share of the team’s supply of food to the boys in the days before they were discovered. Mongkol “Mark” Boonpium, 13, was the first to emerge from Tham Luang caves. There are unconfirmed reports that Prachak “Note” Sutham, 14, was the second out of the cave.
9.00am: How the rescue happened
The rescue operation was carried out with two navy divers per boy. The boys were tethered to the lead diver, who also held their air tank and guided the boys along a prefixed static rope. A second diver followed behind. The first boy emerged from the cave at 5.40pm (8.40pm AEST), with the second emerging around 10 minutes later. It was another two hours before the last two emerged. After a preliminary check up, they were taken to Chiangrai Prachanukroh hospital in Chiang rai.
8.40am: Musk sends sub to rescue
Elon Musk has sent a “tiny, kid-sized” submarine to help with the rescue. the billionaire tweeted yesterday that he had “great feedback” from Thailand and said the submarine was light enough to be carried by two divers and small enough to get through narrow gaps.
Testing underwater in LA pool pic.twitter.com/CDO2mtjP2D
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 8, 2018
8.30am: Strong Australian contingent
Australia has sent a team of 19 to support the rescue mission being lead by Thai authorities.
* The group includes six Australian Federal Police divers and more divers from the Australian Defence Force, including Navy.
* The divers formed part of the ‘daisy chain’ of rescuers who led four-of-the-12 boys out the cave system to the surface on Sunday.
* Richard Harris, a doctor from South Australia and an anaesthetist with diving experience, was part of the medical team that determined the boys’ fitness to undertake the arduous 4km journey.
* A Department of Foreign Affairs crisis response team is providing support to the Australians.
* Australia stands ready to send more experts to help with the rescue, the federal government says.
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