Thai cave rescue will take 2-3 days to complete: official
Thai volunteers take a rest as rescue operation continues for the 12 boys and their football team coach trapped in Tham Luang cave at the Khun Nam Nang Non Forest Park in the Mae Sai district of Chiang Rai province on July 7, 2018. Scrawled deep inside a mountain in northern Thailand, heartwarming fragments of communication from trapped youngsters have reached families keeping vigil for two excruciating weeks at the entrance to the cave complex. YE AUNG THU / AFP
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Authorities in Thailand have been in a race against heavy rains as they try to find a way to extract the group trapped for nearly two weeks in the Tham Luang cave complex in northern Thailand, a saga that has transfixed a nation.
An effort to rescue 12 boys and their football coach trapped in a flooded Thai cave that began on Sunday will take two to three days to complete, one of the operation leaders said.
"The time duration is... about two to three days, which depends on other factors like the weather," Major General Chalongchai Chaiyakorn, an army commander, told reporters.
