Thailand cave rescue: officials evacuate site for 'rescue operation' – live

A good summary of everything so far from the link:

A reminder of some numbers:

The 12 boys and their football coach have now been trapped in the cave for 15 days, venturing in there on 23 June after football practice.

It has been more than five days since they were discovered by British divers on Monday night.

Officials have been working round-the-clock to pump water out of the cave complex and have cleared the 1.5km section between the cave entrance and chamber three sufficiently that people can walk along it.

It takes 11 hours for experienced adult divers to make a round trip from the entrance of the cave to where the boys are, and out again.

Eighteen divers – 13 international experts and five Thai navy Seals – set off this morning at 10am to begin the rescue mission. The boys will be brought out one-by-one and we are not expecting to see the first boy before 9pm today.

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