Calamity

CHIANG RAI — Oxygen tanks are being opened in the chamber where 13 people are trapped by flooding to prevent them from suffocating, the former governor who has led the operation said early Saturday morning.

BANGKOK — Thai press paid more attention to drama than to scientific reporting in its coverage of the search-and-rescue effort of 13 people missing inside Luang Nang Non cave, an expert said Friday.

CHIANG RAI — The president of the national engineering association on Friday said a drilling effort at the far end of the cave may help reach those trapped inside faster.

CHIANG RAI — Ivan Karadzic has been in the deep dark ferrying oxygen tanks to forward positions that rescue divers depend on.

MAE HONG SON — Three officers died and one survived after a patrol plane crashed Thursday near the Myanmar border.

CHIANG RAI — Three nights after an unlikely miracle, a massive search-turned rescue effort in northern Thailand took a tragic turn when one of the rescue divers died early Friday morning.

PHUKET — Rough seas overturned two boats carrying more than 130 tourists in the Andaman Sea off southern Thailand on Thursday evening, and at least seven people were missing, police said.

CHIANG RAI — New footage of the boys trapped several kilometers inside a flooded cave was posted online Wednesday morning.

BANGKOK — The director of a psychiatric hospital on Tuesday urged the media not to repeatedly interview 13 people stranded inside a northern cave lest they suffer from psychological stress.

BANGKOK — The military government said Tuesday it has greenlit compensation for farmers who lost their crops to the ongoing effort to pump water out of a northern cave in a bid to rescue 13 people trapped inside.