Survivor of Thai cave ordeal dies


Gone too soon: Dom (front row, left) was on a football scholarship in Leicester. — The Straits Times/ANN

ONE of the 12 boys who were 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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