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Missing Thai Boys Found Alive In Cave

Twelve members of a boys soccer team and their coach were trapped in the cave by rising floodwaters more than a week ago. "We found them safe," Chiang Rai Gov. Narongsak Osotthanakorn says.
A happy family member shows the latest pictures of the missing boys taken by rescue divers inside Tham Luang cave when all members of children's soccer team and their coach were found alive on Monday.

Updated at 5:15 p.m. ET

A dozen boys and their soccer coach were found alive inside a flooded cave in Thailand on Monday, nine days after they went missing.

A British diver participating in the international rescue mission appears on a video to be one of the first two divers to have reached the boys, who all seemed responsive and happy to be found.

The initial encounter

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