Duangpetch Promthep, one of the children who was rescued from a cave in Thailand in 2018 after two weeks trapped with his soccer teammates, has died in the United Kingdom, according to the ‘BBC’. The specific causes of death have not been clarified, beyond the fact that he suffered “a head injury.”
At the age of 17, he began his football career last year at the Brooke House College Football Academy in Leicester.
Promthep was the captain of the 12-boy soccer team that five years ago became trapped with his coach in a cave in Chiang Rai province during a hike after a rise in water level caused a flood.
At that time, the little boy was 13 years old and spent two weeks locked in the cave with his companions. None of them knew how to swim, so they had to be rescued by a team of divers who sedated them and took them out through partially flooded caves with an oxygen mask.
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