Thai cave rescue: Operation set to resume — live updates

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Rescue to resume later Monday afternoon, Washington Post reporter says

The divers are expected to go back into the cave at about 4-5 p.m. local time, said Washington Post reporter Shibani Mahtani, who is in Mae Sai. She said the supplies need to be restocked, mainly the oxygen tanks since the government said they had depleted their oxygen tanks.

The rescuers need to also check on the boys who are still there and make sure they are strong enough to be rescued.

The boys and the coach are coming out through a buddy system, and she said she has heard some “pretty dramatic scenes of the rescue.”

For the boys in the region, soccer is “really a way of life.”

As for the coach who has been trapped with the boys, Mahtani said she has learned he has a “tragic” story. He was orphaned after a disease spread through his town, killing his parents and his younger brother. He moved to a monastery, but has moved back to the region to care for an ailing grandmother.

“It does seem he has dedicated a lot of himself to the team,” Mahtani said.

Mahtani said the community where boys are from is “definitely a small town … not a rich town.” She said a lot of people in the region are refugees, and move back and forth between Thailand and Myanmar.

“It’s an extremely close-knit community,” she said. “For sure, this is the biggest thing that has happened here, maybe in forever.”

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