Survivor of Thai cave ordeal dies in Britain


Duangpetch Promthep (first row, second from left) was on a football scholarship in Leicester. The cause of his death is unclear. -GETTY IMAGES

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): One of the 12 boys rescued from a flooded cave in Thailand during a dramatic operation in 2018 has died in Britain.

Seventeen-year-old Duangpetch Promthep, who was better known as Dom, was the captain of the Wild Boars football team that was stranded in Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand’s Chiang Rai province for more than two weeks.

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