Eight of 13 young footballers rescued from Thai cave

Rescue divers have headed back inside a flooded cave complex in Thailand to rescue more members of the stranded soccer team — and appear to have made their first rescue of the day.

Four boy have already been rescued on Monday, Sky News reported a Royal Thai Navy official as saying, bringing the total number of boys that have been rescued up to five.

Reporters at the scene said a sixth boy had been extracted, but officials have yet to confirm it.

Ten rescuers put on scuba gear and headed into the Tham Luang cave network around 11 a.m. local time on Monday to extract the remaining members of the junior soccer team and their coach, Thai officials said.

A witness on the scene said they saw one person being carried on a stretcher from the cave into the ambulance around 4:30 p.m. on Monday, Reuters reported. 

A video published by the Thai PBS news channel on Monday also showed a person on a stretcher — likely the fifth boy — being transferred to a helicopter.

Source: Business Insider