A bunch of Thai footballers and their coach riveted media and people all over the world. Every eye was transfixed to the television set to get good news from Thailand. Prayers were finally heard and the soccer team along with their coach was rescued by a group of rescuers and searchers, with just one casualty. Thailand cave rescue mission was finally successful
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About 3 weeks ago 12 boys and a man went missing after their soccer practice. They went to a popular spot but were caught inside because of rising floodwater. Being a complex labyrinth they lost their way and stuck inside for more than 3 weeks, without food and drinkable water.
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Suratin Chaichompoo, the president of Thai groundwater association, said, “All I want is the kids’ life. It’s a reward for me drilling water. I don’t want any money.”
Farmers of Chiang rai set a new example of humanity when they allowed cave water to be pumped into their rice field, which might ruin their year worth of hard work. They said happily, “rice being flooded for 7-10 days doesn’t matter. We care more about the kids than about rice.”
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In reply to the farmers good deed, the water pumping team said, “We respect kindness of the farmers a lot. We’ve decided not to go home until we finish pumping water out of their fields.
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The bird nest collectors said, “We will stay until the mission completes. We will be responsible for all the expanses. We don’t want to burden anyone.”
Muslim females prepared Halal meat for the rescuers.
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local washers cleaned clothes of divers for free because they couldn’t do anything directly to help.
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the coach who was the only help of his team left no stone unturned to make all his apprentices alive. He taught them meditation to keep calm in such bad conditions.
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the first to find the boys and started the rescue mission.
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pune based kirloskar company sent technical support to pump the water from the cave.
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None of the boys is critical but still under medical supervision. They will be allowed to meet their family in a week.