File: Duangpetch Promthep, 13, a forward and captain of the Wild Boars football team, attends a Buddhist ceremony at the entrance of Tham Luang cave on August 3, 2018. (Photo by Thierry Falise/LightRocket via Getty Images) The captain of the boys’ soccer team that was dramatically rescued from a flooded cave in Thailand in 2018 has died in England while attending a sports academy, reports say.
Duangpetch "Dom" Promthep of the "Wild Boars" team was one of 12 players who along with their coach became trapped in the Tham Luang cave during an unexpected rainstorm in June that year.
Faced with tremendous challenges, a team of the world’s most experienced divers navigated the maze of flooded, narrow cave tunnels.
The divers were joined by Thai forces and more than 10,000 volunteers to complete the daring rescue mission. "Duangpetch Promthep has now gone to another world," Supatpong Methigo, a Buddhist monk who taught the team in Thailand's northern Chiang Rai province, wrote on Facebook, according to Reuters. "I hope he will be reborn and become my student again in the next life." ‘THIRTEEN LIVES’ DIRECTOR RON HOWARD, STAR COLIN FARRELL DETAIL ‘EXHAUSTING’ SCENES IN FILM ABOUT THAI CAVE RESCUEPromthep, 17, was found unconscious in his dorm room at the soccer academy he was attending in Leicestershire since late 2022, the BBC reports.