Race vs. water: Rain threatens rescue of Thai boys trapped in cave

Thai rescuers on Thursday said they may be prodded into a complex extraction of 12 boys and their football coach from a flooded cave if forecast rains hammer the mountainside and jeopardize the rescue mission. Thirteen sets of diving equipment have been prepared for the team, who have endured 12 nights underground in the Tham Luang cave complex in northern Thailand. Water is being pumped out from the deluged cave round-the-clock, reducing the flooding by one centimetre an hour. But with rain forecast to begin on Friday, the Chaing Rai provincial governor helming the unprecedented rescue effort conceded the mission was now "a race against the water". "Our biggest concern is th...

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