A final operation to rescue the trapped “Wild Boars” football team ended successfully yesterday evening (10 July 2018) with the last four boys and their coach extracted from the flooded Tham Luang cave in Chiang Rai’s Mae Sai district.

All 12 boys and their 25-year-old football coach were evacuated to safety following an exhausting and perilous 17 days search and rescue operation involving the collaboration of hundreds of Thai officials and elite cave divers from around the world.  A Danish diver, Ivan Karadzic, involved in the rescue mission has hailed the children as “incredibly strong” and added that “ I cannot understand how cool these small kids are, you know? Thinking about how they’ve been kept in a small cave for two weeks,they havn’t seen their mums. Incredibly  strong kids. Unbelievable almost.”