Thai boy's death shatters happiest of endings
South East Asia correspondent
When we first got news that a group of Thai footballers had gone missing, I had dashed with my colleagues up to Chiang Rai, and then to the entrance of the Tham Luang cave complex, carrying just three days of clothes. I found I was too emotional to respond. The boys were more or less the same age as my two sons. Dom was just 12 days older than my eldest. Reporting about them day and night, seeing their bikes still chained to the railings by the cave, they had become very precious lives.And then that astonishing moment, when British divers John Volanthen and Rick Stanton found them, calling out in the dark, "how many are you? Thirteen? Brilliant". It seemed nothing less than a miracle.
But they did. And within days they were charming the world in their first appearance before the media, smiling, joking, knocking footballs around.
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