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Duangphet Dom Phromthep along with his household (AP)
Duangphet Dom Phromthep, one of many 12 boys rescued from a Thai cave flooding, died in his room at Brooke Home Faculty Soccer Academy
The captain of the 12 boys rescued from a flooded collapse Thailand in 2018 after being trapped for greater than two weeks died in England, the place he was attending a sports activities academy, the muse sponsoring his research mentioned Wednesday.
Duangphet “Dom” Phromthep, 17, was discovered unconscious Sunday in his room on the Brooke Home Faculty Soccer Academy in Leicestershire and was taken to a hospital the place he died Tuesday, Thailand’s Zico Basis mentioned. The varsity additionally confirmed his dying.
Ian Smith, the principal at Brooke Home faculty, mentioned: “This occasion has left our faculty neighborhood deeply saddened and shaken. We unite in grief with all of Dom’s household, pals, former teammates and people concerned in all elements of his life, in addition to everybody affected in any method by this loss in Thailand and all through the school’s world household.
“The faculty is liaising with statutory authorities and the Royal Thai embassy in London, and dedicating all assets to help our scholar physique, as they as younger individuals course of Dom’s passing. Past that, we’re unable to remark additional presently and would ask for privateness and compassion as we proceed to assist the scholars in our care presently, drawing on the kindness and help of the Market Harborough neighborhood.”
Former Thai nationwide group captain and coach Kiatisuk Senamuang, who heads the Zico Basis, mentioned in an internet information convention that he didn’t know the reason for dying and that Dom had apparently been in good well being.
Dom was the captain of the Wild Boars, a youth soccer group within the northern Thai province of Chiang Rai. Twelve members of the group, ages 11 to 16, and their coach have been exploring the Tham Luang cave advanced in June 2018 once they have been trapped by quickly rising floodwaters. An enormous search and rescue operation involving worldwide divers was launched.
The boys spent 9 nights misplaced within the cave, dwelling on little or no meals and water, earlier than a diver noticed them deep within the twisting cave advanced huddled on a patch of dust above the rising water line. The second was captured on video and shortly broadcast to the world.
It was one other eight days earlier than all have been safely rescued. A group of professional divers guided every of the boys out of the cave on particular stretchers after anesthetizing them to maintain them calm sufficient to move. The operation required inserting oxygen canisters alongside the trail the place the divers maneuvered by means of darkish, tight and twisting passageways full of muddy water and powerful currents.
Dom’s mom, who joined the net information convention, mentioned she hoped a Buddhist monk in England may conduct rites for Dom so his spirit wouldn’t be trapped the place he died in accordance with Buddhist beliefs.
The story of the Wild Boars, which was lined intensely by worldwide media, has been retold in a number of films, together with Ron Howard’s 2022 function movie “13 Lives” and the 2021 documentary “The Rescue.”
(With inputs from Businesses)
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