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Thailand Resumes Search for Soccer Team Trapped in Flooded Cave

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Rescuers are seen outside the Tham Luang caves, where 13 members of an under-16 soccer team are trapped, in the northern province of Chiang Rai, Thailand, June 25, 2018. / Reuters

Rescuers are seen outside the Tham Luang caves, where 13 members of an under-16 soccer team are trapped, in the northern province of Chiang Rai, Thailand, June 25, 2018. / Reuters

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BANGKOK — A search for a missing teenage soccer team believed trapped in a cave complex in Thailand’s northern province of Chiang Rai entered its third day on Tuesday as concern grew for the welfare of the boys and their coach.

Teams from the Royal Thai Navy had halted search efforts late on Monday, saying oxygen levels were low in some parts of the complex in the Tham Luang-Khun Nam Nang Noon forest park in the province.

The 12 boys, aged 11 to 16, and their 25-year-old coach, were believed to have been trapped by rising waters inside the cave network when heavy rain hit.

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“We must find the children today. We have hope that they are living somewhere in there,” provincial governor Narongsak Osottanakorn told Reuters, adding that each group drafted into the search would work its hardest to find the boys.

The boys’ bicycles and soccer boots were found at the mouth of the Tham Luang caves after they went missing late on Saturday.

A 17-member unit of the Royal Thai Navy has been deployed to find them and underwater drones have joined the search.

So far, the team has searched about 6 km (4 miles) of the 10-km (6-mile)-long cave, said forest park head Damrong Hanpakdeeniyom.

Visitors are usually only permitted to venture about 700 meters (2,300 ft) into the cave complex.

“Inside it is very dark … and if it rains between July and December then we close it,” Damrong added. “This group went in further than allowed.”

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