PHOTOS: The Nation
The cave search party grows after one other night of rain.
Mold sniffer canine have now joined the rescue staff and Border Patrol police looking for access methods to the cave from the mountaintop above. The number of personnel and sniffer canine involved within the search has reached 650.
Explode for 12 young footballers and their assistant coach trapped in a Chiang Rai cave resumed the morning (Thursday) following a night of heavy rainfall that solely made circumstances worse.
Three “breathing holes” and two “manholes” found atop the cave earlier had been too narrow to permit entry, a source on the rescue team stated. The plan is to lower a heat-detection gadget that would establish likely human presence, the supply mentioned.
National police deputy chief Pol General Weerachai Songmetta said today’s hunt will give attention to the world leading in the direction of Doi Pha Mee, which sits above the rightward channel of the cave’s major three-way intersection.
It’s suspected there are a quantity of chambers ranging in peak from 10-60 metres the place the lost celebration is waiting for help, and that passages may rise from these chambers to the highest of the mountain. Another team is searching atop the cave round Khao Nang Non to the northeast, Weerachai said.
Naval Special Warfare Command chief Apakorn Yukongkaew, who led SEALS divers in the search contained in the cave, said floodwaters had risen to the cave entrance, posing a major obstacle.
Park officers have closed the forest park to vacationers..