In Thai jungle above trapped boys, alternative rescue effort ramps up

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In Thai jungle above trapped boys, alternative rescue effort ramps up

CHIANG RAI, Thailand (Reuters) - Rescue teams thrashed through dense forest hundreds of meters above a cave complex on Friday, searching for an alternative way to extract 12 boys and their soccer coach trapped inside for nearly two weeks. Their work above the Tham Luang cave near Thailand's northern border with Myanmar took on added urgency as forecasts for rain threatened a plan to bring the boys back through cramped, water-logged passageways to the cave entrance. "We want to find the way down. I believe we are close," Thanes Weerasiri, ...

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Navy Seals teach Thai boys how to dive ahead of dangerous cave extraction

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