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More than half 12 children trapped in Thai cave freed (video)

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Three more boys have been rescued today from the cave complex in northern Thailand where a youth football team became trapped two weeks ago. A fourth boy is reported to have made it past the notorious 'choke point' along the rescue route, leaving just four teammates and their football coach stuck underground. The first of today's rescued Wild Boar FC players, whose identities have not yet been confirmed, was evacuated from the cave shortly before 5pm local time, a few hours after the rescue mission entered its second day, the "Daily Mail" reports. A helicopter took off from a make-shift landing zone close to the Tham Luang National Park en route for the Chiang Rai Pranukroh Hospital, to the cheers of the rescue team, volunteers and family members on the ground. Boy number six and seven was brought out little over an hour later, with boy number eight thought to be emerging imminently. As many as six of the boys, aged 11 to 16, are set to be brought out today, after four were rescued yesterday, MailOnline has learned. The 12 youth team players and their 25-year-old coach went missing on June 23, having become trapped inside the Tham Luang Nang Non cave in the northern Chiang Rai region by rising flood water. The fifth boy's rescue came shortly after the commander of the mission, Narongsak Osottanakorn, said 'oxygen bottles are ready... in the next few hours we will have good news'.