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Thai soccer team saved from flooded cave

Four boys and their coach brought out on final day of rescue

An ambulance leaves from Tham Luang cave in Thailand on July 10.     © Reuters

CHIANG RAI, Thailand (Reuters) -- Rescuers freed the last four of 12 Thai boys and their soccer coach from deep inside a flooded cave on Tuesday, a successful end to an extraordinarily perilous mission that gripped the world for more than two weeks.

The "Wild Boars" soccer team, aged between 11 and 16, and their 25-year-old coach became trapped on June 23 while exploring the cave complex in the northern province of Chiang Rai when a rainy season downpour flooded the tunnels.

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