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17-year-old boy who was rescued from Thai cave dies in UK: Soccer team captain who was trapped in cave for two weeks dies after ‘sustaining head injury’
- Duangpetch Promthep, 17, was among 12 children trapped in 2018
- His cause of death is currently unclear, but reports say he suffered a head injury.
A boy who was rescued from a Thai cave in 2018 has died in the UK.
Duangpetch Promthep was one of 12 young football players from the Wild Boars team who were trapped by rising floodwaters for two weeks.
His story and eventual rescue by a team of nearly 100 divers garnered worldwide attention.
Promthep’s cause of death is currently unclear, but reports say the teenager suffered a head injury. He enrolled at the Brooke House College Football Academy in Leicester at the end of 2022 when he was 17 years old.
Promthep was the captain of the Wild Boards (Moo Pa in Thai).
Duangpetch Promthep (centre in photo) was one of 12 young football players from the Wild Boars team who were trapped by rising floodwaters for two weeks.
Following the rescue, Promthep traveled to the UK where he enrolled in a soccer academy.
He and his teammates ventured into the Tham Luang cave on June 23, 2018, before becoming trapped.
The children had been trapped in the complex since June 23 last year for 18 days, before they were rescued by a team of specialist divers, led by British experts and Thai Navy SEALs.
It has been reported that after the rescue from the cave, Promthep came to the UK to play football and enrolled in Leicester’s Brooke House College Football Academy.
Breaking the news of his death on Facebook, a Buddhist monk named Supatpong Methigo said his grandmother informed them of the tragic event.
The monk claims that the teenager hit his head and could not be saved.
They said: ‘Duangphet Phromthep has gone to a good place.’
MailOnline has contacted Brooke House College Football Academy for more information.
Promthep and his team stayed in the cave for over a week.
Promthep and his team’s ordeal story shocked the world
It is currently unclear how the teenager died.
Promthep and his team rose to global fame during the 2018 ordeal that is now commemorated in the country.
A museum dedicated to the rescue operation, a swimming pool known as the Emerald Pool where rescue water was pumped from the cave, and a statue of a former Thai Navy SEAL who tragically died during the three-week rescue operation has since been promoted as tourist attractions by the public relations office of Chiang Rai province.
Saman Kunan, a 37-year-old former Thai Navy Seal, tragically died of suffocation during the rescue operation while delivering oxygen to the trapped soccer team.
The boys and their coach were trapped during a visit to the complex when monsoon floodwaters blocked the mouth of the cave and pushed them three miles into the complex.
The boys and their coach ended up stranded on a ledge, starving in the dark, until a team of British divers found them more than a week later.
Thousands of people participated in the international search and rescue operation