After nine days of search and rescue operations, the boys have finally been found.

The soccer team and their coach have been trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand. But today, the governor of Chiang Rai, Narongsak Osatanakorn, announced that all 12 of the boys and their coach were found safe.

“We found them safe. But the operation isn’t over … We will take care of them until they can move,” Osottanakorn told reporters. “We will bring food to them and a doctor who can dive. I am not sure they can eat as they have not eaten for a while.”

“If the doctors say their physical condition is strong enough to be moved, they will take them out from the cave,” he said. “We will look after them until they can return to school.”

More than a week ago, the boys’ belongings were found outside the Tham Luang Nang Non cave in the Chiang Rai province.

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They had entered the cave for a sightseeing trip. The spot is known to be popular for sightseeing, but gets dangerously flooded during the monsoon season.

The Royal Thai Navy SEAL divers started the search, but found it difficult to move further into the cave complex. But, there were more than a thousand rescuers from several countries like the US, UK, and China that joined the rescue operations.

As rescue operations continued for the whole week, mothers of the boys were outside of the cave holding vigils to bring the boys safely back home.

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After days of scouring the cave and diving through murky waters and strong currents, two British divers found the boys and their coach on a ledge in a cavern where they made it to higher ground.

Thank you very much for helping the childen #ถ้ำหลวง pic.twitter.com/jyH8tsJEvS

— Ben (@Benga1999) July 3, 2018

When the divers found the team, they were all very weak but thankfully safe. Now that the boys have been found, emergency responders are figuring out a way to get them out of the cave.

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— вавч (@yaya____abstory) July 2, 2018

Edd Sorenson, a regional co-ordinator in Florida for the International Underwater Cave Rescue and Recovery Organisation, said, “So at this point, you know, I think they would be better off bringing in food, water, filtration systems, oxygen if the air space needs it and requires it, and at least they have lights and hope now, so I think waiting it out, as long as they can get supplies in there to make them comfortable and warm and fed and hydrated”

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