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Rescue workers Monday at the scene of accident outside Prachuap Khiri Khan city. Photo: JS100

Car Crash Kills 7 in Prachuap Khiri Khan

PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN — Seven people died Monday after a truck crashed into a car and a pickup truck outside Prachuap Khiri Khan city.

Divers With Extra Supplies Advance in Thai Cave Passageway

CHIANG RAI — Rescue divers on Monday were making progress through a key passageway inside the flooded mountain cave in northern Thailand where 12 boys and their football coach have been missing for more than a week.
Rescuers Sunday make their way down at the entrance to a cave complex where 12 boys and their soccer coach went missing, in Mae Sai, Chiang Rai province. Photo: Sakchai Lalit / Associated Press

Rescuers Clear Hurdle in Cave Search for Missing Boys

MAE SAI — Rescue divers cleared a key hurdle Sunday in the increasingly desperate search for 12 boys and their football coach who went missing in a cave in northern Thailand more than a week ago, officials said.
Rescuers Sunday make their way down at the entrance to a cave complex where 12 boys and their soccer coach went missing, in Mae Sai, Chiang Rai province. Photo: Sakchai Lalit / Associated Press

Divers Make Little Progress in Murky Cave Search

MAE SAI — Thai navy divers leading the search for 12 boys and their football coach in a cave have failed to make much headway in their effort to push through the murk of a kilometer-long chamber to what is thought to be a clear area where the missing may be sheltering.
Rescuers talk each other during a July 1 search operation at the entrance to a cave complex where 12 soccer team members and their coach went missing, in Mae Sai, Chiang Rai province. Photo: Sakchai Lalit / Associated Press

Lull in Rain Raises Hope in Cave Rescue

MAE SAI — The frantic effort to locate 12 boys and their football coach missing in a cave in Thailand for over a week picked up pace as a break in the rain eased flooding in the system of caverns and more experts from around the world joined the anxious rescue mission.
Soldiers hold an evacuation drill June 30 near the Tham Luang Nang Non cave in Mae Sai, Chiang Rai province. Photo: Sakchai Lalit / Associated Press

Cave Rescue Efforts Pick up Pace as Flooding Eases

MAE SAI — The effort to locate 12 boys and their football coach missing in a cave in Thailand for a week has picked up pace, with a break in the rain easing flooding in the system of caverns and more experts from around the world joining the mission.
In this image from video made available on Friday, June 29, 2018, a group of young children sit around candles and play a song at a school in Buriram, eastern Thailand, in support for the missing soccer team and their coach in a flooded cave in the north. Photo: Lek Nai Tung Kwang school via AP

In Song and Prayer, Thais Show Solidarity With Missing Boys

MAE SAI — It's a simple melody sung to the plucking of acoustic guitars by schoolchildren sitting around candles: "I beg the skies to show mercy and empathy/ My brothers are in Tham Luang Khun Nang Non/ Let them pass this danger, I beg."
Col. Phop Mulchet, chief of Koh Chang Police in Mae Sai, on Friday holds a container of food and drinking water.

Food, Notes Dropped into Cave as Prospects Dwindle

“If you receive this, please respond quickly,” the note read. “Tell us where you are on the map, everyone here will do their best to rescue you.”

Water Reaches Near Cave’s Entrance Where 13 Missing

CHIANG RAI — Muddy floodwaters have reached near the entrance of a Thai cave despite attempts to drain the water so rescuers can search farther into the complex for 12 boys and their soccer coach now missing for a sixth day.

US, UK Teams Join Search for 13 Missing in Cave

CHIANG RAI — A U.S. military team and British cave experts have joined the rescue effort in northern Thailand for 12 boys and their soccer coach stranded for a fifth day inside a cave being flooded by near-constant rains.

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