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Rescue Underway for Thai Soccer Team Trapped in Cave

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MAE SAI, Thailand — The Latest on the rescue of 12 schoolboys and their coach from a cave in northern Thailand (all times local):

10:40 a.m.

A Thai governor says the operation to bring out 12 schoolboys and their soccer coach from deep inside a cave where they have been trapped for two weeks has begun.

The acting Chiang Rai governor has told reporters “today is D-Day” with 13 foreigner and five Thai divers taking part in the rescue.

He says the divers went in at 10 a.m. and the boys will gradually come out accompanied by two divers each.