Thailand to Mark Soccer Team’s Dramatic Cave Rescue With Museum

Thailand to Mark Soccer Team’s Dramatic Cave Rescue With Museum
People react as the 12 soccer players and their coach who were rescued from a flooded cave arrive for their news conference in the northern province of Chiang Rai, Thailand, July 18, 2018. Reuters/Soe Zeya Tun/File Photo
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BANGKOK—Thai construction workers on Thursday began building a museum to commemorate the dramatic cave rescue of a boys’ soccer team in the northern province of Chiang Rai and the death of one of the divers.

The 12 boys, aged 11 to 16, and their 25-year-old coach went missing on June 23 while exploring the cave complex and were rescued more than two weeks later during a perilous three-day mission by foreign and Thai divers that gripped audiences around the world.