Boy who survived Thai cave rescue dies in UK aged 17 – National | 24CA News

Duangpetch Promthep, one in every of 12 boys rescued from a collapse Thailand in 2018, has died whereas attending faculty within the U.Okay. He was simply 17 years previous.

Promthep was discovered unconscious in his dorm room in Leicestershire on Sunday, the BBC reported. He was rushed to Kettering General Hospital, the place he died on Tuesday.

Leicestershire Police mentioned his demise isn’t being handled as suspicious.

According to the northern regional department of the Thai authorities, Phromthep died of a head harm because of an accident, although no further particulars have been supplied.

“The atmosphere at his house in Chiang Rai province was full of sorrow,” PR Thailand’s assertion mentioned.

In 2018, Phromthep was the captain of the Wild Boars youth soccer workforce when he and his teammates grew to become trapped deep inside a flooded cave for over two weeks in Chiang Rai, Thailand. After a daring worldwide rescue effort, all 12 of the younger soccer gamers and their coach have been saved.

Since final yr, Phromtep has been attending a soccer academy within the U.Okay. on a scholarship. The Brooke House College Football Academy has but to launch a press release in regards to the scholar’s demise.

Promthep and his former teammates in Thailand rejoiced when he introduced on Instagram that he had received a scholarship to the academy in August.

“Today my dream has come true,” he wrote.

Just six months later, his teammates are posting condolences for his or her buddy.

“We have been through together a lot, good and bad times. We had went through life and death situations together, when you told me to wait and see the time you became a national player. I always believed that you could do it,” wrote one of many different Thai cave survivors, Prajak Sutham, on Facebook.

“Last time we met before you left to UK, I jokingly told you that, when you’re back I would ask for your (autograph). Rest in Peace Bro, we always have each other, the 13 of us.”

Another teammate, Titan Chanin Viboonrungruang, wrote: “Brother, you told me that we would be achieving our football dream… if the next world is real, I want us to play football together again.”

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