WATCH: Four boys rescued from Thai cave

Monday, 9 July 2018 07:39

By Taylah Strano

Four of the twelve boys have been freed from the cave they've been trapped in for the last two weeks.

A group of twelve boys and their soccer coach have been trapped inside the Tham Luang cave in Thailand for two weeks.

This morning Thai authorities have confirmed divers rescued four of those boys from the cave network before they were rushed to hospital in Chiang Rai.

The rescue operation, which involved 90 divers, including eight Australians, started overnight with the first boy of the group surfacing to safety at 5.40pm.

The second child reached safety shortly after, then the second pair.

The silver lining of many disasters is that they remind us of the powerful human will to live and the will to help risking your own life. Watch British divers prepare for the #ThaiCaveRescue now underway pic.twitter.com/La0euqir8Q
— #Thinker 🌀 (@areta) July 8, 2018

Governor Osotthanakorn confirmed the first four of the group had arrived back to land overnight.

“We expected the first child to come out at 9pm (10pm AWST) but everything went well, with the first child coming out at 5.40pm (6.40pm AWST) and the second child 10 to 20 minutes later,” he said. The second pair of boys followed two hours later.

Seven News reporter Chris Reason has been documenting the entire operation, sharing updates on Twitter, including this footage of the conditions divers are working in.

Take a look at this to give an idea of the extremes of cave diving pic.twitter.com/x0yHgmcuUk
— Chris Reason (@ChrisReason7) July 8, 2018

Experts are concerned heavy rainfall could upset plans to rescue the remaining boys and adult today.

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