Funeral of Thai 'cave boy' who died in UK ends with final prayer session and lots of tears

Family members, accompanied by monks and fellow mourners, prepare to release the ashes of Duangphet Phromthep in a makeshift boat into the Mekong River in Chiang Rai Province Thailand, Monday, March 6, 2023. Duangphet was one of the 12 boys rescued from a flooded cave in 2018. He died in the U.K. last month. - AP

MAE SAI, March 6 (AP): Mourners filled a temple chamber for a final prayer session Sunday in northern Thailand for one of the 12 boys rescued from a flooded cave in 2018 who died at school in England last month.

Duangphet "Dom” Phromthep, 17, was found unconscious in his room on Feb. 12 at the Brooke House College Football Academy in Leicestershire and died at a hospital two days later.