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After Euphoria, A Daunting Task: How To Rescue Thai Boys From Complex Cave System?

Rescuers found 12 boys and their coach Monday, more than a week after they went missing. But now authorities are grappling with finding a way to get them out alive.
Hundreds of rescuers gather outside the cave Tuesday in Chiang Rai to help load equipment and aid efforts to rescue the 12 boys aged 11 to 16 and their 25-year-old coach.

When volunteer British divers managed the remarkable late Monday night, finding 12 Thai boys and their soccer coach stranded on a ledge more than a mile into a complex cave system, they were greeted with a chorus of thank yous — and one very difficult question. It came from the mouth of a lanky boy who had just spent nine days with his teammates stranded in darkness a half-mile below ground.

"When can

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