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| The Thai hospital where 12 boys and their soccer coach are recuperating after being rescued from a flooded cave has released video showing them in their hospital beds, chatting with nurses and making two-finger victory signs. | The Thai hospital where 12 boys and their soccer coach are recuperating after being rescued from a flooded cave has released video showing them in their hospital beds, chatting with nurses and making two-finger victory signs. |
| The video shows the boys in an isolation ward in beds with crisp white sheets and wearing green surgical masks. | The video shows the boys in an isolation ward in beds with crisp white sheets and wearing green surgical masks. |
| The youngest, 11, appeared asleep while others, including their 25-year-old soccer coach, sat in bed, their faces obscured by green surgical masks. | |
| Some of their parents are seen crying and waving to them from behind glass. | Some of their parents are seen crying and waving to them from behind glass. |
| Nurses chatted with them and the boys responded with the customary Thai sign of respect hands pressed together while bowing the head. | |
| Chaiwetch Thanapaisal, director of the Chiang Rai Prachanukroh hospital, told a news conference together with the officials involved in the rescue that “everyone is strong in mind and heart”. | Chaiwetch Thanapaisal, director of the Chiang Rai Prachanukroh hospital, told a news conference together with the officials involved in the rescue that “everyone is strong in mind and heart”. |
| The four boys and soccer coach brought out Tuesday on the final day of an all-out three-day push to save all of them had recovered more quickly than the boys rescued on Sunday and Monday, Chaiwetch said. | |
| Even so, all need to be monitored in the hospital for seven days and then rest at home for another 30 days, he said. Three have slight lung infections. | |
| Another video released on Facebook by Thailand’s navy Seals apparently shows one of the boys being carried through part of the muddy cave on a stretcher covered by an emergency thermal blanket. | |
| The group had entered the sprawling Tham Luang cave to go exploring after soccer practice on 23 June but monsoon rains soon filled the tight passageways, blocking their escape. | |
| They were found by a pair of British divers nearly 10 days later, huddled on a small, dry shelf just above the water, smiling with relief but visibly skinny. | |
| The complex mission for international and Thai divers to guide the boys and coach through the cave’s flooded and tight passageways riveted people worldwide. | |
| Narongsak Osatanakorn, the official overseeing the rescue operation, lauded the cooperation between Thai and international rescuers. | |
| “The situation went beyond just being a rescue mission and became a symbol of unity among mankind,” he said. “Everyone worked together without discrimination of race or religion as the ultimate goal was to save the youth football team.” | |
| Each of the boys, ages 11 to 16 and with no diving experience, was guided out by divers though rocky, muddy and water passages that in places were just a crawl space. | |
| The method was extremely risky, but dwindling oxygen levels in the cave and fears of more monsoon rains to come made a decision urgent. | |
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