Search continues for Thai youth football team trapped in cave

Rescuers are unsure where to look for the young players, who got stuck in a network of caves last Saturday

Thai caves
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Packages containing food and water have been dropped through a natural shaft in the mountainside in an effort to reach 12 young men and their football coach trapped in a cave in Thailand.

The boys, aged between 11 and 16, as well as their 25-year-old assistant coach from the Moo Pa football academy, “went missing on Saturday when they explored the six-mile Tham Luang cave complex in Chiang Rai province”, reports Sky News.

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